tópicos: fragmentação do sistema partidário, infidelidade partidária, modelo de federalismo, preenchimento de cargos públicos, larga utilização de medidas provisórias, disfunções do processo legislativo.... Provide an analysis of the legislative Brazilian factors which affect the performance of policies. The analysis will further be based on primary and secondary empirical data that
provides evidence of the main legislative problems: the exaggerated use of
provisional measures by the president, excess of legislative bodies, overload
of proposals, and great flexibility and distortion of roles and functions. The
conclusion is that Brazilian institutions contribute to the maximization of
legislators self-interest, thereby causing diffusion and inefficacy in the legislative work and consequently disruption of the final policy results. Some
topic recommendations are provided in order to diminish these negative
effects and to re-establish the institutional order....