Comparative Agendas

Datasets

We have uploaded 6 datasets:

- Constitutional Amendments (1992 to 2017)

- Laws and Complementary Laws (2003 to 2014)

- Messages do the Congress (2003 to 2014)

- Presidential Investiture Speeches (2003 to 2016)

- Provisional Measures (2003 to 2014)

- Most Important Problems (1996 to 2018)

Parliamentary & Legislative

Complementary Laws 2003-2014

Complementary Laws 2003-2014

33 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Constitutional Amendments

This dataset contains information about approved Constitutional Amendments to the Brazil 1988 Federal Constitution. Each record is coded by our policy content scheme.

Este conjunto de dados contém informações sobre as Emendas Constitucionais aprovadas à Constituição Federal do Brasil de 1988. Cada registro é codificado pelo nosso esquema de conteúdo de política.

45 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Laws 2003-2014

Laws 2003-2014

2449 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Legislative Decrees 2003-2014

Legislative Decrees 2003-2014

7949 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Prime Minister & Executive

Executive Decrees 2003-2014

Executive Decrees 2003-2014

7000 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Messages to the Congress

This dataset contains information on each quasi-statement in the Introduction of Messages to the Congress sent by the President of Brazil every year. Each quasi-statement is coded according to our system of policy content categories.

Este conjunto de dados contém informações sobre cada fragmento sobre políticas públicas extraído da Introdução das Mensagens para o Congresso, enviada pelo Presidente do Brasil todos os anos. Cada fragmento é codificada de acordo com nosso sistema de categorias de conteúdo de política.

1755 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Presidential Investiture Speeches

This database includes information about the Presidential Investiture Speeches (Discurso de Posse). In the investiture speech the new president of Brazil presents important information about the policy priorities of the government for the next legislature.

Esta base de dados inclui informações sobre os Discursos de Posse do Presidente da República do Brasil. No discurso de investidura, o novo presidente do Brasil apresenta informações importantes sobre as prioridades em políticas públicas de seu governo para a próxima legislatura.

517 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2011
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Provisional Measure

This dataset contains information about each Provisional Measures (Medida Provisória) issued by the President of Brazil.

Este conjunto de dados contém informações sobre cada Medida Provisória (MP) primulgada pelo Presidente do Brasil.

564 observations spanning the years 2003 to 2014
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Public Opinion & Interest Groups

Datafolha - MIP - Most Important Problems

This dataset contains responses to Datafolha Most Important Problem question: In your opinion, what country is the greatest problem? Dataset is aggregated at the annual level, according to the number of interviews made by Datafolha each year, and coded by major topic.

Este conjunto de dados contém o mapeamento das respostas dos participantes à pergunta realizada em entrevistas feitas pelo Datafolha sobre o Problema mais importante do país: Na sua opinião, qual país é o maior problema? O conjunto de dados é agregado pela média anual, de acordo com o número de entrevistas realizadas pelo Datafolha a cada ano, e codificado pelo seu tópico principal - macrocódigo.

484 observations spanning the years 1996 to 2018
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Research

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 ... Read more

Staff

Ana Cláudia Niedhardt Capella

Title: Director
Institution(s): Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara

Ana Cláudia N. Capella is an Assistant Professor at the São Paulo State University (UNESP Araraquara). Her research focuses on public policy processes, with an emphasis on agenda-setting and decision-making; and public administration, including Brazilian public administration modernization.

Felipe Gonçalves Brasil

Title: Co-Director and Project Manager
Institution(s): Federal University of São Carlos

Felipe G. Brasil is a postdoc fellow - Department of Public Administration at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP Araraquara) with an internship at The University of Texas at Austin. His research centers on agenda-setting focusing in policy dynamics and policy change.

Andréia Pires Sudano

Title: Senior Graduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Federal University of São Carlos

Andréia Pires Sudano is a Ph.D student in Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos.She holds an M.S. in Public Administration at FGV and a Bachelor´s degree in Public Administration at UNESP. Her research centers on Public Policy Processes, including agenda setting, and public administration.

Lauro Nunes

Title: Graduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Federal University of São Carlos

Lauro Nunes is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Federal University of São Carlos . His research centers on public policy process, including agenda-setting focusing in LGBTI policies

Beatriz Rey

Title: Senior Graduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Syracuse University

Beatriz Rey is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she double majors in comparative politics and public policy & public administration.

João Vitor Andrade

Title: Graduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Federal University of São Carlos

João Andrade l is a Masters grad student in Political Science at Federal University of São Carlos His research centers on public policy process, including agenda-setting focusing in party manifesto, presidential speeches and policies promisses.

Coordinator of data collection of the Executive.

Marcos Paulo Andrade

Title: Undergraduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara

Marcos Paulo is an senior undergraduate student in Public Administration - UNESP - Araraquara. Coordinator of data collection of the Legislative. FAPESP Scholarship since 2019.

Giovanna Rampin

Title: Undergraduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara

Giovana Rampin is an undergraduate student in Public Administration - UNESP - Araraquara. CNPq Scholarship since 2019.

Pedro de Moura

Title: Undergraduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara

Pedro de Moura is an undergraduate student in Public Administration - UNESP - Araraquara. CNPq Scholarship since 2019.

Vinicius Pasquini

Title: Undergraduate Research Fellow
Institution(s): Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara

Vinicius Pasquini is an undergraduate student in Public Administration - UNESP - Araraquara. PIBIQ - UNESP Researcher.

Coders Team

Title: Coders Team
Institution(s): Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara

- Beatriz Alves Mancini

- Danilo Ferrari Pauletto

- Eric Kyei Kwakye

- Gabriel Schmidt

- Jéssica de Carvalho Fonseca

- Juliana Santana

- Larissa Soares Rosa

- Rafaela Passos

- Renato de Melo Serafin

Explore Policy Trends

Click to explore policy trends with Brazil pre-selected. The Trends tool allows for policy comparisons across governing institutions and countries.

The Brazilian Policy Agendas Project started its activities in 2015. The research aims to investigate agenda-setting processes in Brazil by monitoring and analyzing the changing issues in the policy agenda. Thus, it is intended to contribute to the studies in the field of public policies in Brazil, especially focused on agenda-setting, as well as for the analysis of processes of policy change related to changes in government priorities.

The Brazilian Policy Agendas Project seeks to integrate this network, initially through analyze of six types of documents: Constitutional Amendments; Messages do the Congress; Presidential Investiture Speeches; Provisional Measures; Most Important Problems and Laws approved by the House of Representatives (at the Federal level). These documents will enable identification of topics present in the presidential agenda, in the legislature and also on public opinion. In future phases of the project, it is expected the expansion of documents for review, in order to permit the investigation of changes in the agendas over several decades.

The data was originally collected by Ana Cláudia Niedhardt Capella and Felipe Gonçalves Brasil with the collaboration of undergraduate students from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) and graduate studentes from Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar).

The additional data that are being collected (1995-2002) include: presidential Investiture speeches; Messages to the Congress, laws, Decrees and Provisional Measures.

Funding came from the The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) (grant number 471414/2014-0 – chamada MCTI/CNPQ/MEC/CAPES Nº 22/2014; grant number 424398/2018-4 - chamada MCTIC/CNPq Nº 28/2018) and the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (grant number 2018/16289-3).

How to cite: Capella and Brasil. "Dataset name". The Brazilian Policy Agendas Project, 2019. https://www.comparativeagendas.net/brazil. Accessed "date".Neither these public institutions nor the original collectors of the data bear any responsibility for the analysis reported here.

Principal Investigator: Ana Cláudia N. Capella
Location: Department of Public Administration, Sao Paulo State University - UNESP Araraquara
Email: policyagendasbrazil@gmail.com
Downloadable Data Series: 9
Time Span: 1996-2018
Total Observations: 20,796

Sponsoring Institutions

Sponsoring Institutions are:

Department of Public Administration - Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)

Programa de pós-graduação em Ciencia Política - Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar).

Funding came from:

The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq):

- grant number 471414/2014-0 – chamada MCTI/CNPQ/MEC/CAPES Nº 22/2014;

- grant number 424398/2018-4 - chamada MCTIC/CNPq Nº 28/2018)

Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP):

- (grant number 2018/16289-3)
- (grant number 2018/11032-4)
- (grant number 2016/21653-0)

Brazilian Policy Agendas

Featured Research:

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 ... Read more