Política de Defesa e a Base Industrial de Defesa no Brasil: uma interpretação a partir do ciclo de políticas públicas (2005-2022)

Abstract

lthough in most democratic countries it is common to point out the difficulty in understanding what the Armed Forces actually do and how they use the budget resources allocated to them, there is scarcity of studies that apply Public Policy Analysis - an academic area specialized in evaluation and improvement of government actions - for the matter. The present study proposes to understand defense policy beyond the formalism and excessive abstraction of the theory of public goods. Second, it applies some concepts and theories in the area and others, based on the six-step version of the Public Policy Cycle model, on Brazilian policy for the so-called "defense industrial base." It is shown that the area's leaders were skillful in the relationship with the political sphere and managed to place the issue on the high-level decision-making agenda. Furthermore, despite the political instability of the last decade, the low formal coordination between the different Forces, the modest civilian bureaucracy of the Ministry of Defense, the absence of an adequate monitoring system of the actions carried out, and the budgetary frustration for a large part of the period, the available data suggest that relevant results have been achieved.