Parliamentary Amendments to the Public Budget:
Resource Allocation in the Brazilian Federal Government 2019-2020
Keywords:
parliamentary amendments, economic-financial, sociopolitical, coalitional presidentialismAbstract
In Brazil, the legislative branch must approve the bill of the annual budget law (LOA), and deputies and senators can propose amendments to the bill during this process. These amendments raise debates about the federal government’s public budget. Therefore, this study considers the public budget a technopolitical instrument. It adopts a broad concept that challenges budget practice and can help explain the role of parliamentary amendments in the Brazilian allocative process. Thus, the article aims to characterize the parliamentary amendments to the Brazilian federal government’s budget from 2019 to 2020, observing the economic-financial and socio-political dimensions. Exploratory and descriptive research adopting the documentary and bibliographic methods was carried out to understand the arrangements of parliamentary amendments to the public budget, supported by the theoretical discussion about coalitional presidentialism. When examining the quantity of resources directed to the subnational entities through parliamentary amendments to the budget, it was possible to observe the prominence of the Southeast region, which occurs because it is the most populated region of the country. It is observed that it is primarily intended for health (an obligation of the constitutional amendment EC 86/2015). It was also possible to observe the parliamentarians’ tendency of directing resources to welfare, urban planning, administration, and education.
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