INTRODUCTION
This paper aims to discuss the implementation of regulatory agencies in Brazil. This kind
of agency has been intensively discussed in the South-American country, as they play a
big role in major decisions concerning crucial sectors. Lately, airplane disasters and
public pressure towards improvements in that sector culminated in an extensive
investigation in ANAC, the civil aviation agency, and the discovery of more than a few
serious problems in its functioning.
The regulatory agencies were not an isolated phenomenon in Brazil, but part of a larger
plan to reform the public management in the country. Comprehending the plan is
essential to fully understand the role of the agencies in the new public sector that arises in
that nation.
Moreover, it is necessary to study the universal model in which the all agencies work and
whether it was proper to achieve the desired goals. Is having a similar model for agencies
from different sectors and with different purposes the best option? There might be
advantages and disadvantages of this structure.
REFORMS IN THE STATE MANAGEMENT
After a long period of transition, which lasted basically the whole decade of the 1980s,
Brazil had a new Constitution approved in 1988 and a new president democratically
elected (Fernando Collor de Melo, in 1989). Those were the first steps towards the reform
of the public management to a more decentralized and marketised model.
Although president Collor did put in place some measures that contributed for the
country to compete in a globalized and competitive world, the political turmoil caused by
his impeachment stopped the country for a few more years. The state reform would have
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to wait for the mid 1990s when Fernan ...