Jeni Vaitsman is a senior researcher at the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, where her area is Public Policies.

José Mendes Ribeiro is a senior researcher at the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, where his area is Public Policies.

Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato is a professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, where she coordinates the Núcleo de Avaliação e Análise de Políticas Sociais.

Policy analysis in Brazil: the state of the art ~ Jeni Vaitsman, José Mendes Ribeiro and Lenaura Lobato (editors)

PART I: STYLES AND METHODS OF POLICY ANALYSIS IN BRAZIL

Professionalisation of policy analysis in Brazil ~ Jeni Vaitsman, Lenaura Lobato and Gabriela R. B. Andrade

Policy Analysis Styles in Brazil ~ Christina Andrews

Modernization of the state and bureaucratic capacity-building in the Brazilian Federal Government ~ Celina Souza

PART II: POLICY ANALYSIS BY GOVERNMENTS AND THE LEGILSLATIVE

Policy analysis and governance innovations in the federal government ~ José Mendes Ribeiro and Aline Inglez Dias

Policy monitoring and evaluation systems: recent advances in Brazil’s federal public administration ~ Romulo Paes-Sousa and Aline Hellman

Privatization and policy decision making in Brazil ~ Licinio Velasco and Armando Castelar Pinheiro

Production of policy-related information and knowledge in Brazil: the state government agencies ~ Cristina de Almeida Filgueiras and Carlos Alberto Rocha

Policy analysis at the municipal level of government ~ Marta Farah

The role of the Brazilian legislature in the public policy decision-making process ~ Fabiano Guilherme M. Santos

PART III: PARTIES, COUNCILS, INTEREST GROUPS AND ADVOCACY-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS

Brazil’s National Social Assistance Policy Council (CNAS) and the policy community supporting social assistance as a right ~ Soraya Vargas Cortes

Brazilian response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: integrating prevention and treatment ~ Elize Massard da Fonseca and Francisco I. Bastos

Media and policy analysis in Brazil: the process of policy production, reception and analysis through the media ~ Fernando Lattman-Weltman

Parties and public policy: programmatic formulation and political processing of constitutional amendments ~ Paulo Fábio Dantas Neto

Business associations and public policy analysis ~ Renato Raul Boschi

Policy analysis in non-governmental organisations and the implementation of pro-diversity policies ~ João Bosco Hora Góis.

PART IV: ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS

Expert community and sectoral policy: the Brazilian Sanitary Reform ~ Nilson do Rosário Costa

Brazilian think-tanks: between the past and the future ~ Tatiana Teixeira

Policy analysis by academic institutions in Rio de Janeiro state ~ Cristiane Batista

Postgraduate instruction and policy analysis training in Brazil ~ Eliane Hollanda and Sandra Siqueira.