AGENDA-SETTING AND DECISION MAKING FROM THE MULTIPLE STREAMS´ PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF THE "NOVO REGIME FISCAL"
Novo Regime Fiscal, multiple streams, new historical institutionalism, public budget, agenda-setting
This work is in the field of public policy analysis, based on the use of the Multiple Streams Model (MSM) with recent updates of the international literature, including the theoretical support of the New Historical Institutionalism (NHI), in order to emphasize the institutions and its influence on institutional changes. To this end, a case study was used on the New Fiscal Regime (NRF), a fiscal rule adopted through Constitutional Amendment 95, of December 15, 2016, of great relevance and transversality in terms of public policies. Previous researches have been limited to investigating the legal adequacy or social and economic impacts of the NRF. In order to fill these gaps, the present study presents a recent historical survey of the federal fiscal rules, describes the agenda-setting and decision-making processes of the NRF, analyzes the main factors that contributed in each of these stages, so to fulfill its main objective which is to understand the context and the fundamental factors for the adoption of the NRF. Therefore, this research was based on analysis of documents, from the Executive and Legislative branches, and news from the media in general published in 2016, as well as interviews with relevant actors in the process. The collected data were submitted to content analysis, with the aid of software. The results indicate the feasibility of the updated model and, thus, with the operationalization of the proposed model, they contributed to the evolution of the MSM. The protagonism of the flows of problems and alternatives in the first coupling and of the flows of alternatives and political in the second coupling were identified. The fundamental factors for opening the window of opportunity, as well as the differentiated action of the entrepreneurs in each coupling.