The Role of the Brazilian Congress in Foreign Policy: An Empirical Contribution to the Debate

Diniz, Simone; Ribeiro, Cláudio Oliveira

doi:10.1590/1981-3844200800020001

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Article • Bras. Political Sci. Rev. 2 (2) • 2008 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-3844200800020001 copy

The Role of the Brazilian Congress in Foreign Policy:^* * We are immensely grateful to the valuable observations of BPSR's reviewers. We also wish to thank Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira and Janina Onuki, with whom we had the chance to share some of the themes dealt with here. An Empirical Contribution to the Debate

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

The article aims to contribute to the debate on Legislative participation in Brazil's foreign policy. The research is based on presidential messages referent to international agreements forwarded to Congress for deliberation between 6 October, 1988 and 31 December, 2006. We find that the Brazilian institutional model does not totally restrict the decision-making process concerning international acts to the Presidency of the Republic and to the Ministry of External Relations. We submit that by analysing presidential messages referent to international agreements forwarded by the Executive to Congress for deliberation, and how these make their way through the Chamber of Deputies, it is possible to identify the existence of a broader spectrum of political participation than much of the literature tends to point out.

Keywords:
Legislative; Executive; Foreign policy; Decision-making

Result of the passage	Frequency	Percentage
Passing	21	2.6
Ready to go onto the agenda	51	6.2
Rejected	3	0.4
Withdrawn by the author	12	1.6
Approved	725	89.2
Total	812	100.0

Procedural regime	Foreign Affairs Committee	Other thematic or admissibility committees
Urgency	8	265
Priority	180	–
Ordinary	498	220
Urgency (Leaders)	39	219
No information	–	21
Total	725	725

Deliberative Forums	Reservations	Ordinary	Priority	Urgency	Urgency (Leaders)
CRE	6	498	183	8	39
Other committees	43	244	–	265	219

Duration of passage	Sarney 15/03/1985 to 15/03/1990	Collor 15/03/1990 to 02/10/1992	Itamar 02/10/1992 to 01/01/1995	FHC (1) 01/01/1995 to 01/01/1999	FHC (2) 01/01/1999 to 01/01/2003	Lula (1) 01/01/2003 to 01/01/2007	Lula (2) 01/01/2007 to 01/01/2011	Total
1 to 3 months	2	4	6	10	7	6	–	35
4 to 6 months	1	4	4	12	1	2	–	24
7 to 9 months	3	9	3	41	7	3	–	66
10 to 12 months	1	8	7	46	8	18	–	88
13 to 18 months		22	14	37	40	36	3	152
19 to 24 months		6	7	28	47	35	–	123
25 to 36 months		8	7	30	32	43	12	132
37 to 42 months			1	10	3	18	4	36
Over 43 months				11	5	37	16	69
Total	7	61	49	225	150	198	35	725

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We are immensely grateful to the valuable observations of BPSR's reviewers. We also wish to thank Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira and Janina Onuki, with whom we had the chance to share some of the themes dealt with here.