Brazil

CAPACITY AND DIVERSITY OF PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES (2003 TO 2014)

This research aims to present the first results of the Brazilian Policy Agendas Project. The results to be presented and discussed in the paper focus on analyzes of the capacity and diversity of presidential attention on public policies in three periods of government: first and second Lula government and the Dilma government. The analyzes and conclusions corroborate with the important theoretical precepts of the agenda-setting studies that evidence maintenance and changes in public policy priorities, that is, incremental moments and moments of change in the agenda. They also point to important movements in the capacity, diversity and elasticity of the governmental agenda, caused, above all, by different moments of institutional and cognitive friction in the domestic and external environments. They show, finally, that the variations in the presidency's priorities go far beyond macro systemic changes resulting from partisan and party-ideological changes. Changes in government priorities can and do occur even within the same governments and governments of the same party.

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