EX POST PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN DEPUTIES IN FOREIGN POLICY: BETWEEN CRITICAL ISSUE PERSPECTIVE AND THE EXECUTIVE LEGISLATIVE RELATIONSHIP

This paper intends to answer the following question: do the Brazilian federal deputies overlook the debates on foreign policy? To do so, we raise elements that allow the comprehension of the congressional interest on foreign policy, specifically on the processing of international acts. The analysis covers the period between 1988 and 2014, focusing on the Chamber of Deputies. We test two hypotheses: 1) the type of international act positively influences the parliamentary performance; 2) the deputies’ performance has a positive effect on the likelihood of executive actions. Finally, it is clear that deputies act, on the one hand, according to the logic of the critical issue perspective and, on the other hand, constrained by the executive-legislative dynamics.

本研究旨在解答如下问题：巴西联邦众议员是否会忽视外交政策相关辩论？为此，本研究提出相关分析维度，以助力探析国会在外交政策领域的关注倾向，具体聚焦于国际文书的审议流程。本次分析的时间范围为1988年至2014年，研究对象为巴西众议院。本研究对两项假说进行验证：其一，国际文书的类型对议员履职表现具有正向影响；其二，众议员的履职表现会提升行政部门采取相关行动的概率。最终研究结果表明，众议员的行为一方面遵循关键议题视角的逻辑，另一方面又受到行政与立法互动机制的约束。