Policy Analysis in Brazil

Jeni Vaitsman is a senior researcher at the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, where her area is Public Policies.José Mendes Ribeiro is a senior researcher at the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, where his area is Public Policies.Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato is a professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, where she coordinates the Núcleo de Avaliação e Análise de Políticas Sociais.

• 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 BRAZILProfessionalisation of policy analysis in Brazil ~ Jeni Vaitsman, Lenaura Lobato and Gabriela R. B. AndradePolicy Analysis Styles in Brazil ~ Christina AndrewsModernization of the state and bureaucratic capacity-building in the Brazilian Federal Government ~ Celina Souza PART II: POLICY ANALYSIS BY GOVERNMENTS AND THE LEGILSLATIVEPolicy analysis and governance innovations in the federal government ~ José Mendes Ribeiro and Aline Inglez DiasPolicy 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 PinheiroProduction 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. SantosPART III: PARTIES, COUNCILS, INTEREST GROUPS AND ADVOCACY-BASED POLICY ANALYSISBrazil’s National Social Assistance Policy Council (CNAS) and the policy community supporting social assistance as a right ~ Soraya Vargas CortesBrazilian response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment ~ Elize Massard da Fonseca and Francisco I. BastosMedia and policy analysis in Brazil: the process of policy production, reception and analysis through the media ~ Fernando Lattman-WeltmanParties and public policy: programmatic formulation and political processing of constitutional amendments ~ Paulo Fábio Dantas NetoBusiness 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 ANALYSISExpert community and sectoral policy: the Brazilian Sanitary Reform ~ Nilson do Rosário CostaBrazilian think-tanks: between the past and the future ~ Tatiana Teixeira Policy analysis by academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro state ~ Cristiane BatistaPostgraduate instruction and policy analysis training in Brazil ~ Eliane Hollanda and Sandra Siqueira.

"[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