The participation of the Legislative Branch in the federal budget: scheduling and budgetary priorities in individual amendments.

• Grant number: 25/01393-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: August 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: Felipe Gonçalves Brasil
• Grantee: Aline Nunes Rocha
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 20/07485-3 - Dynamic attention and agenda-setting in Brazil (Brazilian Policy Agendas Project), AP.JP

Abstract

The budget is an important instrument that materializes the allocative preferences ofpolicymakers, since public policy sectors need funding. The legislature has been gaining moreand more importance and weight in defining budget priorities, given the reforms to increasethe power of parliamentarians over the budget process. One of them was the imposition ofindividual amendments by parliamentarians that, until 2014, were authorizing. Thus, thecentral objective of this project is to map the distribution of government attention ofparliamentarians, via individual amendments, in the period from 2015 to 2025. Themethodology of this research consists in building a database, with quantitative and qualitativeanalysis, highlighting the content and values of the amendments by sectoral policy, under theanalytical lens of agenda theories.