DEFENSE COALITIONS IN MARITIME CARGO TRANSPORTATION POLICY IN BRAZIL: privatization, decentralization and opening to foreign capital

The central question was the following: how and which defense coalitions influenced the Policy in the period studied and what were the beliefs and values that delineated these coalitions? The work dialogued with the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). The characterization of the coalitions was defined based on three policy core beliefs: centralize or decentralize decisions on concessions and budgetary management of resources arising from commercial maritime activity; exploitation of services linked to the sector by public authorities or private initiative; opening or not of foreign capital participation in port and navigation exploration (Campos de Oliveira, You and Coelho, 2021). In sequence, three moments were determined to carry out a diachronic comparative study: the civil-military dictatorship (1964/85), the reference for comparison with other periods; the constituent process of 1987/88 (T1); and the Port Modernization Law (T2). In the end, the work identified the National Corporate Industrial Coalition as dominant in the policy subsystem. It was possible to identify greater conflict in the reform attempt carried out in 1993, without the potential, however, to generate significant changes in the policy.

Policy Process; Maritime Transport; Advocay Coalitions; Changes in public policies