Uma análise da implementação e dos atores do Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático (PNLD)

Abstract

Social policies are normally analyzed from the perspective of their impact on final recipients. This analysis of the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD) focused on the intermediary beneficiaries of the policy (publishers) and identified how the implementation of the PNLD is influenced by these actors, from the decision-making processes to the allocation of resources for the acquisition of books. Thus, the broader purpose of this study was to analyze how the implementation of a social policy can, when directed by intermediary actors (suppliers), unequally benefit the economic agents involved in the production of policy results. In methodological terms, this is a descriptive-analytical research, its data collection was based on bibliographic material on the history of the PNLD until the mid-2000s and on documentary material, norms and resolutions that contained information on the norms that regulate the way of choosing titles and data on budget execution. Data analysis shows that the largest portion of the program's revenue is concentrated in six publishers, capturing 77.83% of the program's total. Only 4 publishers (11% of the total number of companies) receive ¾ of the total amount spent on politics. Thus, there are strong indications that these public resources can contribute to the formation of oligopolies in the textbook market in Brazil.