Brazilian Ministerial Appointments and Bureaucracy Profiles, 1999-2016

A dataset analyzing the relationship between ministry types and the profiles of political appointees in Brazil's federal bureaucracy from 1999 to 2016. The data was created by Mariana Batista using cluster analysis to classify ministries into four objective types: coordination, redistribution, regulation, and distribution. It examines how presidents choose between professionalizing the bureaucracy or appointing partisans based on ministry type.

Use Cases

• Classifying ministries into objective types based on policy nature and centrality using cluster analysis.
• Analyzing presidential appointment strategies for professional vs. partisan roles based on ministry type.
• Studying the allocation of coalition partner partisans to ministries controlled by those parties.
• Investigating the profiles of individuals in Brazil's DAS (Direção e Assessoramento Superior) roles over time.

Strengths

• Data covers an 18-year time range from 1999 to 2016.
• Ministries are classified into four objective types via cluster analysis.
• Analysis focuses on upper-level bureaucratic positions (DAS roles) in Brazil's federal government.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Mariana Batista

Collection Method

Cluster analysis of ministries and identification of relationships with appointment profiles.

Time Range

1999 to 2016

Geography

Brazil