Consequences of the indefinition of the Brazilian regulatory frame: Anatel’s Consulting Council’s meetings, during the period of 1998-2003

Authors

  • Flávio Ramos Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Abstract

The agencies of regulations in Brazil, created since 1995 in the context of the reform of the State during the first period from Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1994-1998), still search an organizational identity, so its operations, as well its respectives fields on actuations, are not well expressed in a precise way. The consultive Counsel of the Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações – Anatel proved the Agency contradictions, so the meetings of this consultive Agency resumed or reflecyed the own drama of the organization in consolidate as an politic actor. As we can observed in the article, the members of the Consultive Counsel show disinformation about the effective public responsibility from Anatel in front the process of privatizations occurred in the country from the decade of 1990 and the importance of the regularization of the Agency in front of strong economics interests came from transnational funds. The article consequently look for demonstrate the contradictions of Anatel from the perspective Counsel Consultive of the Agency. Keywords: State, society, regulation.

Author Biography

Flávio Ramos, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí

Possui graduação em Economia pela Universidade Cândido Mendes (1977), mestrado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1984) e doutorado em Sociologia Política pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2005). Atualmente é professor titular da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí. Áreas de interesse: sociologia da empresa, teoria das organizações, teoria institucional, teoria social contemporânea e gestão de pessoas.

Published

2005-01-01

Issue

Section

Thematic Dossier