Dynamic attention and agenda-setting in Brazil (Brazilian Policy Agendas Project)

Abstract

This proposal is linked to the expansion of the activities of the Brazilian Policy Agendas Project, a national project that is part of the Comparative Agendas Project, composed of an international network of researchers from twenty-three countries that are dedicated to research on agenda-setting and policy change.Based on the findings and analyzes made by the Brazilian project in previous grants, the proposal aims to map and analyze the attention of different actors on public policies over time. In this way, documents that reflect the attention of decision-makers are analyzed, expanding the data already collected by the project with the inclusion of new databases on legislative proposals, and government proposals registered before the presidential elections, between 1985 and 2022. This proposal will create a public and open-access database containing more than 130 thousand information on the priorities in public policies of the actors involved in the process of formation and change in the governmental agenda. Based on these data, multiple analyzes will be carried out in order to understand the process of agenda-setting, its capacity, and diversity, pointing out both incrementalism and changes throughout the post-democratization period in the country. In addition, the extensive database also makes it possible to carry out sectorial studies that analyze the dynamics of sectoral policies, their changes, and contexts as well as comparative analyses. (AU)