Abstract
This paper examines the two versions of the Decree 1.202/39 and its amendments during the Estado Novo dictatorship (Decrees 5.511/43 and 7.518/45). It analyzes the different formats of the legal provision that set the formal powers of the state oligarchies after the Revolution of 1930 and the political-bureaucratic agenda of the Administrative Departments of the states, evaluating their legal capacity to formulate policies and make decisions, as a precondition to understand their power of agenda-setting. This analysis explains how the division of political and bureaucratic work operated in the dictatorial state, the connections between its centers of power and the distribution of power among oligarchies.
Keywords:
"Estado Novo"; dictatorial regime; Decree 1202; Administrative Departments; Getúlio Vargas