The Brazilian pension system in the context of social security: an analysis of policy agenda-setting

Abstract

This study considers the current agenda of reforms in the Brazilian pension system and aims to understand how the pension system became an element of social security in the 1988 Brazilian Federal Constitution. The methodology is qualitative, predominantly documentary and bibliographical. The research uses content analysis, determining the coding categories before the data analysis, based on John Kingdon’s (1984, 2003) multiple stream framework (problems, policies, and politics), including the. category “international influence.” The study showed that the pension system was a public problem tied to economic and management factors in the 1980s. When the problem entered the public agenda, different policies were formulated, including expanding social welfare through creating a social security system.

Keywords:
Brazilian pension system; Social security; Policy agenda-setting