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Book SynopsisPolicy analysis in Brazil is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. It brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity and offers key insights into the practice of this field.
Trade Review"[This book] represents a pioneering effort towards understanding policy analysis in a national context where... it has previously not been a subject of formal enquiry." Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Table of ContentsPolicy 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 Professionalisation of policy analysis in Brazil ~ Jeni Vaitsman, Lenaura Lobato and Gabriela R. B. Andrade Policy Analysis Styles in Brazil ~ Christina Andrews Modernization of the state and bureaucratic capacity-building in the Brazilian Federal Government ~ Celina Souza PART II: POLICY ANALYSIS BY GOVERNMENTS AND THE LEGILSLATIVE Policy analysis and governance innovations in the federal government ~ José Mendes Ribeiro and Aline Inglez Dias Policy monitoring and evaluation systems: recent advances in Brazil’s federal public administration ~ Romulo Paes-Sousa and Aline Hellman Privatization and policy decision making in Brazil ~ Licinio Velasco and Armando Castelar Pinheiro Production of policy-related information and knowledge in Brazil: the state government agencies ~ Cristina de Almeida Filgueiras and Carlos Alberto Rocha Policy analysis at the municipal level of government ~ Marta Farah 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 Brazil’s National Social Assistance Policy Council (CNAS) and the policy community supporting social assistance as a right ~ Soraya Vargas Cortes Brazilian response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment ~ Elize Massard da Fonseca and Francisco I. Bastos Media and policy analysis in Brazil: the process of policy production, reception and analysis through the media ~ Fernando Lattman-Weltman Parties and public policy: programmatic formulation and political processing of constitutional amendments ~ Paulo Fábio Dantas Neto Business associations and public policy analysis ~ Renato Raul Boschi 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 Expert community and sectoral policy: the Brazilian Sanitary Reform ~ Nilson do Rosário Costa Brazilian think-tanks: between the past and the future ~ Tatiana Teixeira Policy analysis by academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro state ~ Cristiane Batista Postgraduate instruction and policy analysis training in Brazil ~ Eliane Hollanda and Sandra Siqueira.
