State And Social Policy In Contemporary Brazil: return to the past and the hesitant future

Abstract

This article adresses to State and social policy in Brazil of the present times since the processes occured in the years 1980 and 1990, and to that extension they have to interfered in the governmental action in the start of the XXI century. The hypotheses maintained are: 1) the so-called State "reform", and her implication in the social policies, configures a true return to the past in terms of rights and needs the most of the population; 2) the present government dispose of certain ambiguity, in the sense of that its proposals/actions, on the one hand, are more or less progressive (the SUAS, for example), on the another hand, are regressive and continuous of the “reform” (such as the State Fundations’ project). The goal is to carry out an analysis about State and social policy in Brazil, recuperating the processes occurred in the two last decades of the XX century and approaching illustrative cases of the ambiguity that happens in the Lula government.