Governance - institutions, actors and strategies

In 2018, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the collective of political scientists called LEGIS-ATIVO, a project associated with the Voto Consciente Movement, were faced with a crucial question: how could the executive branch carry out its agenda under the leadership of a newly-elected president who was ranting against the basic foundations of what had been understood up to that point as governability? Moreover, how could it be understood that this phenomenon was more complex than the relations between the Planalto and the National Congress? Thus was born, at the beginning of 2019, "GOVERNABILITY - to understand Brazilian politics", a title that gained ground in academia and among political analysts. But five years on, until the dawn of 2024, Brazil has witnessed new chapters of constant "political reform", the extrapolation of the Judiciary as a central actor in the public policy agenda, different conflicts based on an Executive that is intense in its actions, new ways of understanding Governability as a phenomenon and, above all, two forces brought to the forefront in the perception of the phenomenon that once again lends its name to a work by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation: the Armed Forces and International Relations. Faced with such complexity, we present here GOVERNABILITY - Institutions, actors and strategies - with unpublished texts and a very special group of authors.