Formation and changes in the Brazilian social-constitutional agenda from 1988 to 2022

• Grant number: 23/12312-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Support Program for Fixating Young Doctors
• Start date: September 01, 2023
• End date: August 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Agreement: CNPq
• Principal Investigator: Felipe Gonçalves Brasil
• Grantee: Beatriz Policicio Rey
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/00725-7 - Setting and changes in the Brazilian social-constitutional agenda from 1988 to 2022, AP.R

Abstract

The objective of this project is to understand how constitutional changes impact changesof public policies. We analyze the Brazilian case from 1988 to 2022 and verify how the changesrelating to the importance attributed to the constitutionalization of social and economic rights (DSE) impacted on thechanging the dynamics of the policy process, increasing the relative proportion of ordinary legislation aimed atcause policy change in the DSE areas. The search draws on the Comparative Agenda databaseProject (CAP) and the Brazilian Policy Agenda Project (BPAP) to which it is integrated. are expectedcontributions to an underexplored field of study in international political science, which encompasses theconstitutionalist and public policy literatures.