Institutional Change in social and food security and nutrition policy angeda: strategies and advocacy coalitions
Institutional change; publicy policy; social policy; food policy; dismantling; resilience
The central topic of this project is institutional change in social policies on the agenda to combat poverty and hunger. In the Brazilian case, researchers argue that the process of institutional change results in dismantling, highlighting its anti-democratic, illiberal, authoritarian, populist and reactionary character. The literature does not answer how the social policy agenda to combat poverty and hunger was affected by the context of democratic erosion, nor does it explain the different degrees of institutional change in the different programs, nor which resilience factors the programs presented. The proposed research seeks to answer: how social policies on the anti-poverty and hunger agenda were affected by the change of government? More specifically, it seeks to answer: why some programs have changed more than others? The research design involves within-cases comparison. The suggested methodology consists of applying the process tracing method in combination with content analysis and network analysis. The case selection chose four cases based on the program design criteria, subsystem and beneficiary public. The programs selected were the Bolsa Família Program, the Food Acquisition Program, the National School Food Program and the Cisternas Program.