Replication Data for: \"Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case\"

The recognition of issues as public problems and the ways governments prioritize them constitute focal points in the study of policy change and policy dynamics. In Brazil and other Latin American countries, social welfare systems and related policies have undergone transformations throughout the recent democratic period. This article aims to understand changes in the Brazilian social welfare agenda by means of an analysis of the attention given to social welfare policies at the federal level. The main analytical and methodological contribution of this article is its use of the research strategy developed under the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) to analyze the Brazilian situation. We drew on a set of unpublished datasets on the attention given by governments to social welfare policies from 1988 to 2018 that involves more than one thousand observations across six different datasets. The analyses are made at two different levels: first, we seek to understand macro trends and moments of continuity and inflection in social welfare policy by federal government administration. Second, we analyze the composition of the attention given to social welfare policies, thereby identifying the themes given the highest priority.

将议题认定为公共问题以及政府为其划定优先级的方式，是政策变迁与政策动态研究的核心焦点。在巴西及其他拉丁美洲国家，社会福利体系与相关政策在近期民主时期历经了诸多变革。本文旨在通过分析联邦层面社会福利政策所获关注度，探析巴西社会福利议程的变迁。本文的主要分析与方法贡献在于，采用比较议程项目（Comparative Agendas Project, CAP）所开发的研究策略来分析巴西的相关情况。我们使用了1988年至2018年间，关于政府对社会福利政策关注度的一套未公开数据集，该数据集涵盖六个不同子数据集、超千条观测样本。分析分为两个不同层面：其一，我们试图探析联邦政府执政时期社会福利政策的宏观趋势、延续性与转折节点；其二，我们分析社会福利政策关注度的构成，以此识别得到最高优先级的议题主题。