A longitudinal analysis of participation as public policy in Brazil (1988-2020)

• Grant number: 19/05959-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2019
• End date: June 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: Carla Gandini Giani Martelli
• Grantee: Carla Gandini Giani Martelli
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/15952-0 - A longitudinal analysis of participation as a public policy in Brazil (1988-2020), BP.TT; 19/19482-1 - A longitudinal analysis of participation as a public policy in Brazil (1988-2020), BP.TT; 19/19483-8 - A longitudinal analysis of participation as a public policy in Brazil (1988 - 2020), BP.TT

Abstract

This project aims to study participation as a public policy focusing on the actions that took place in national level, considering actions of government and social agents. By using the Multiple Streams Model and the Punctuated-Equilibrium Theory of policymaking, our attention will be turned to the actors that occupy the three dimensions of a system - macro, micro and subsystem - in order to understand the reasons for including participation on the agenda and the power of visible and invisible actors for agenda-setting. We want to investigate the factors and actors responsible for putting on the agenda the participative management stated in the Constitution of 1988. In addition, focusing on our recent history of social participation, we intend to bring to light the factors and actors that have been contributing to the dismantling of institutionalized participation in Brazil. The research aims at producing findings about the multiple aspects that determine a policy, summarizing the knowledge produced mainly in political science about the role of ideas, institutions, networks and socioeconomic processes in the frame of institutionalized participation policy in Brazil in the last three decades. (AU)