As políticas públicas culturais dos governos PSDB e PT a partir do Ministério da Cultura: uma análise comparada (1995 – 2010).

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the cultural public policies of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s (1995 – 2002) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (2003 – 2010) administrations in a comparative perspective. Our hypothesis was that, despite different perspectives, such governments did not promote an inflection (or significant change) regarding their cultural policies, especially when considering the quantitative data available within the National Cultural Support Program (PRONAC). For this purpose, we have structured a theoretical framework aimed at the concepts of culture, conceptions and configurations of cultural policies and public policies, as well as aspects of political agenda shaping process. The research included a variety of textual materials, as well as quantitative data related to PRONAC. Aspects of the political-partisan and academic trajectories of the highest levels of each government at the head of the Ministry of Culture, their actions, speeches and reflections, government programs, interviews, among other materials published at different times, were considered so that the comparison could be established. We also considered the historical panorama in order to perceive discontinuities and permanencies in the light of cultural public policies in Brazil. The results of the empirical research confirm that, taking elements as whole or in parts, there is no inflection in the conduction of cultural public policies in the studied period, but rather incrementalisms.