Concentrated controls of constitutionality and public policies: the policy attention of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the agenda-setting process in Brazil

• Grant number: 22/03961-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2022
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: Felipe Gonçalves Brasil
• Grantee: Lorraine Saldanha Freitas Xavier de Souza
• Supervisor: Laura Chaques Bonafont
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/07345-0 - Concentrated controls of constitutionality and public policies: the policy attention of the STF and the agenda-setting process in Brazil, BP.MS

Abstract

This project aims to map, classify and analyze how the decisions of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) - so called Supreme Federal Court (STF) - in the context of exercising concentrated constitutionality control, could guide the development of Brazilian governmental agendas. Therefore, an analysis will be made of decisions on typical concentrated control actions in the Brazilian law issued by the Supreme Court from the years 2011 to 2021. Such methodological and instrumental choices, observed in the light of the political process and agenda-setting literature, will indicate the number of decisions as well as the public policy themes judged by the Supreme Court throughout those years. The mapping is performed by encoding some government attention indicators, which is able to measure the frequency in which certain topics appear in the Brazilian judiciary, specifically in the Brazilian Supreme Court's decisions. The aim is to begin a path that compares the main focus in Brazilian Supreme Court decisions with other countries, identifying issues that approach over time, as well as variations and maintenance in matters carried to the Brazilian Supreme Court plenary, considered the highest level of the national judiciary. (AU)