TRANSFER OF PUBLIC POLICIES IN BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF MARKET ASSISTED AGRARIAN REFORM (RAAM) BETWEEN 1997 AND 2020
Public Policies. Policy transfer. World Bank. Market Assisted Agrarian Reform.
The objective of this paper is to analyze the process of transferring public policies with a focus on Assisted Market Agrarian Reform (RAAM), implemented by the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government (FHC), in 1997 and carried out by all Brazilian governments to the present day. This policy is operationalized in Brazil by programs of access to land through financing with the official discourse of alleviating rural poverty, as well as promoting family agricultural production, allowing families to remain in rural areas. In this sense, the transfer of policies is inserted as a theory to explain how, why and what motivated the then President FHC to adopt this policy in the context of the Brazilian agrarian reform considering that since colonization, the Brazilian agrarian structure has been characterized by land concentration in large estates and the 1988 Magna Carta states that agrarian reform must be carried out through expropriation of land considered to be unproductive conducted by the Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). Therefore, the question that guides this research is: what are the causal mechanisms and how the institutional context influenced the transfer process of the Assisted Agrarian Reform of the Market adopted by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso? The general objective of this thesis is to investigate aspects of the process of transferring public policies in the context of Assisted Market Reform in Brazil in the years 1997 to 2020 and specifically, analyzing how the process of transferring the RAAM took place in Brazil, what are its causal mechanisms and what are its effects; Survey the institutions and organizations involved in the transfer process of the RAAM; Identify the social actors and their trajectories in the process of transferring and operationalizing the political project of the RAAM in Brazil and Conducting a survey of the operationalization of the RAAM in Brazil, specifying the programs, in order to identify their scope in different governments, social actors, conflicts and disputes. Thus, for the systematization and construction of the research, techniques for the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data will be used.