BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDAS PROJECT

The research project will investigate agenda-setting processes in Brazil. It is intended to contribute to the studies in the field of public policies in Brazil, especially focused on agenda-setting, as well as for the analysis of processes of policy change related to changes in government priorities. This perspective, unprecedented in Brazil, has been developed in different countries, in which researchers have gathered around the same theoretical and methodological framework,
providing an international network of researchers called Comparative Policy Agendas Project . The Brazilian Policy Agendas Project seeks to integrate this network, initially through analysis of three types of documents: Presidential speeches; laws approved by the House of Representatives (at the Federal level) and the main themes of public opinion reflected in the media (newspaper). These documents will enable identification of topics present in the presidential agenda, in the legislature and also in public opinion. Outcomes
include dissemination of the research in academic journals, at conferences, as well as international comparisons in collaboration with the international researchers through the Comparative Policy Agendas Project. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Evert Lindquist

Student:

Partner:

Universidade de São Paulo

Discipline:

Sociology

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University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award