Brazilian Political Science Review E-ISSN: 1981-3821
[email protected] Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política Brasil Diniz, Simone; Oliveira Ribeiro, Cláudio The Role of the Brazilian Congress in Foreign Policy: An Empirical Contribution to the Debate Brazilian Political Science Review, vol. 2, núm. 2, 2008, pp. 10-38 Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política São Paulo, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=394342315001 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative brazilianpoliticalsciencereview ARTICLE The Role of the Brazilian Congress in Foreign Policy:* An Empirical Contribution to the Debate Simone Diniz Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil Cláudio Oliveira Ribeiro Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil The article aims to contribute to the debate on Legislative participation in Brazil’s foreign policy. The research is based on presidential messages referent to international agreements forwarded to Congress for deliberation between 6 October, 1988 and 31 December, 2006. We find that the Brazilian institutional model does not totally restrict the decision-making process concerning international acts to the Presidency of the Republic and to the Ministry of External Relations. We submit that by analysing presidential messages referent to international agreements forwarded by the Executive to Congress for deliberation, and how these make their way through the Chamber of Deputies, it is possible to identify the existence of a broader spectrum of political participation than much of the literature tends to point out.