Política orçamentária no estado do Rio de Janeiro: governos Rosinha e Cabral (2003-2010)

Abstract

This work is a study about the budget policy and the relations between the Executive and the Legislative in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Current studies on the relations between powers and the budget process are directed at the federal level and, given the institutional and political variations, can not be automatically applied to the states. The development of this research aims to contribute to the filling of part of the gap left by the Brazilian Political Science in the face of the scarcity of works on the budgetary policy in the states. We will work with data from 2003 to 2010 and try to verify the degree of approximation or distance that the experience of the state of Rio de Janeiro presents in relation to the recent national experience, pointed out in Figueiredo and Limongi (2002, 2005). The research also intends to verify if there is a relation between the execution of the individual amendments of the state deputies to the budget and the support to the government's projects and also the impact of the relations between the Executive and the Legislative in the definition of the public expenditure. This analysis will take into account not only the budgetary aspect, but also the formation of government coalitions and party discipline in Alerj. The period studied covers two distinct governments: Rosinha Garotinho, 2003-2006 and Sérgio Cabral, 2007-2010.