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Welfare State and Epistemic Communities of Fiscal Austerity in Brazil: from Lula da Silva to Jair Bolsonaro (2003-2020)* * I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of Revista Sociedade & Estado and Colin Hay - Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris, and Director of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield, UK - for the attentive and rigorous reading, and for the criticisms, comments, and suggestions that contributed to improving this work. This article is the result of postdoctoral internship research, carried out between April 2017 and February 2019, at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Public Policies, Strategies, and Development (INCT/PPED), thanks to a grant from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). The internship was carried out under the supervision of Professor Renato Raul Boschi of the Graduate Program in Political Science at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ), who coordinates the INCT/PPED with Professor Ana Celia Castro of the Institute of Economics at UFRJ. Previous versions of this manuscript were presented at the following scientific events: i. Research Seminar of the Graduate Program in Public Policies, Strategies, and Development, at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE-PPED/UFRJ). UFRJ: 2018; ii. XIV International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (Brasa). PUC-Rio: 2018 and iii. 2nd Seminar NUPPAA (Nucleus of Public Policies: Analysis and Evaluation) - Thinking and Rethinking Public Policies, from the National Institute of Science and Technology in Public Policies, Strategies, and Development (INCT/PPED). Brazilian College of Higher Studies/UFRJ: 2017.

Estado de bem-estar social e “comunidades epistêmicas da austeridade fiscal” no Brasil: de Lula da Silva a Jair Bolsonaro (2003-2020)

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Abstract

This article is based on a theoretical-conceptual framework and empirically grounded research to analyze the construction of discourse and institutional insertion of ideas from epistemic communities of fiscal austerity in Brazil, given the recent upsurge in liberal-orthodox policies and their repercussions for the welfare state. The study explores who these actors and institutions are, how they act, how they are organized, and who trains or finances them. The main objective is to unveil how the ideas in defense of fiscal constriction were formulated and disseminated, starting after the first term (2003-2006) of President Lula da Siva’s government (2003-2010), when developmentalist policies replaced the neoliberal convention. The ideas of fiscal constriction were intensified during the government of President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), and gained characteristics of a unified proposal, materialized in the austerity program Uma Ponte para o Futuro (2015) (a bridge to the future). After President Rousseff’s impeachment in 2016, policy-makers in the government President Michel Temer and his successor Jair Bolsonaro rapidly put forward the austerity program. The epistemic communities of fiscal austerity argue that the public policies outlined in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution are the main cause of the increase in spending on welfare, the accelerated growth of public debt, and the probable insolvency of the country.

KEYWORDS:
Welfare State; Epistemic communities of fiscal austerity; 1988 Brazilian Constitution; Public policy; Brazil

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