Policy Analysis in Brazil - a book by Jeni Vaitsman, José Mendes Ribeiro and Lenaura Lobato (editors)

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Policy analysis in Brazil

Jeni Vaitsman, José Mendes Ribeiro and Lenaura Lobato (editors)

London: Policy Press, 2013

Presentation:

Policy analysis in Brazil is part of the International Library of Policy Analysis and is the first book

to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. Highlighting the unique

features of the Brazilian example, it brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social

scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity pursued in a variety of policy fields and

through different methods by governmental and non-governmental institutions and actors. It

shows how policy analysis emerged as part of Brazilian state-building from the 1930s onwards.

With the democratisation process of the late 1980s, policy analysis began to include innovative

elements of social participation in public management. This unique book offers key insights into

the practice of this field and is indispensable reading for scholars, policy makers and students of

the social sciences interested in learning how policy analysis developed and functions in Brazil.

Contents

1.Policy analysis in Brazil: the state of the art - Jeni Vaitsman, José

Mendes Ribeiro and Lenaura Lobato (editors)

PART I: STYLES AND METHODS OF POLICY ANALYSIS IN BRAZIL

2. Professionalisation of policy analysis in Brazil

Jeni Vaitsman, Lenaura Lobato and Gabriela R. B. Andrade

3.Policy Analysis Styles in Brazil

Christina Andrews 

4.Modernization of the state and bureaucratic capacity-building in the Brazilian Federal Government

Celina Souza

PART II: POLICY ANALYSIS BY GOVERNMENTS AND THE LEGISLATIVE

5.Policy analysis and governance innovations in the federal government

José Mendes Ribeiro and Aline Inglez Dias

6.Policy monitoring and evaluation systems: recent advances in Brazil’s federal public administration

Romulo Paes-Sousa and Aline Hellman

7. Privatization and policy decision making in Brazil

Licinio Velasco and Armando Castelar Pinheiro

8. Production of policy-related information and knowledge in Brazil: the state government agencies

Cristina de Almeida Filgueiras and Carlos Alberto Rocha

9. Policy analysis at the municipal level of government

Marta Farah

10. The role of the Brazilian legislature in the public policy decision making process

Fabiano Guilherme M. Santos

PART III: PARTIES, COUNCILS, INTEREST GROUPS AND ADVOCACY-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS

11. Brazil’s National Social Assistance Policy Council (CNAS) and the policy community supporting social assistance as a right

Soraya Vargas Cortes 

12. Brazilian response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment

Elize Massard da Fonseca and Francisco I. Bastos

13. Media and policy analysis in Brazil: the process of policy production, reception and analysis through the media 

Fernando Lattman-Weltman

14. Parties and public policy: programmatic formulation and political processing of constitutional amendments

Paulo Fábio Dantas Neto

15. Business associations and public policy analysis

Renato Raul Boschi

16.Policy analysis in non-governmental organisations and the implementation of pro-diversity policies

João Bosco Hora Góis

PART IV: ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS.

17. Expert community and sectoral policy: the Brazilian Sanitary Reform

Nilson do Rosário Costa

18. Brazilian think-tanks: between the past and the future

Tatiana Teixeira

19. Policy analysis by academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro state

Cristiane Batista

20. Postgraduate instruction and policy analysis training in Brazil

Eliane Hollanda and Sandra Siqueira