O processo de agenda-setting na reforma da administração pública
Abstract
This thesis aims to analyze the process of policy formulation for public
management reform during Fernando Henrique Cardoso s tenure (1995-2002),
while grasping the scope within which this issue gave rise to national State
Reform. To this end, we have used agenda-setting theoretical models that
highlight the dynamics behind the ideas and the symbolic representation
surrounding policy making, as well as empirical data garnered from the main state
publications released during this period. Agenda-setting was studied in terms of
the principal line of thought on Brazilian government and public administration,
by analyzing the definition of the problems as presented by the government and
the solutions chosen by the creators of reformist policy. These ideas, jointly with
the analysis of political and institutional structures during the Cardoso
government, allow us to understand how this issue rose in importance until they
became a component of the government s agenda.