Análise de políticas públicas no Brasil: De uma prática não nomeada à institucionalização do “campo de públicas”

Abstract

This article addresses the path of policy analysis in Brazil based on literature that distinguishes between policy studies and policy analysis. This is essentially a work of bibliographic research focused on studies about state intervention and bureaucracy. The reconstitution of policy analysis, understood as the generation and mobilization of knowledge for policy, was based on the following analytical categories developed for this work using literature on public policy as reference: type of knowledge mobilized, locus of analysis, actors and institutions involved, target audience and used methodology. This article shows that policy analysis has been present in Brazil since the 1930s, but was not institutionalized as a scientific field. Since the 2000s, the expansion of academic production and courses on public policy has changed this dynamic, leading to the institutionalization of the “public field” where guidance for public policy—that is, policy analysis—occupies a central place.