TY - DATA T1 - Street-level Bureaucracy and Social Policy in Brazil PY - 2017/12/05 AU - Nilson do Rosário Costa UR - https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Street-level_Bureaucracy_and_Social_Policy_in_Brazil/5668102 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.5668102.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900139 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900142 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900148 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900154 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900157 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900160 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9900163 KW - Social policy KW - People with disabilities KW - Street-level-bureaucracy KW - Medical diagnosis KW - Access N2 - Abstract This paper describes the Brazilian central government bureaucracy and people with disabilities’ access to the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC). This access depends on the Ministry of Social Security bureaucracy's evaluation of the condition of vulnerability. We performed a literature review, analysis of secondary data from time series and cross-sectional data to describe street-level federal bureaucracy. Legal documents and indicators describe the expert evaluation regimen of the Ministry of Social Security (MPS). This paper shows the uneven growth of the number of career public servants of the central government in the last two decades. The Brazilian central government has adopted the international concept of person with disabilities in the evaluation of BPC applicants. Despite this decision, it is shown that the Brazilian central government expanded selectively the career bureaucracy to work in the social area. It was found that the result of the evaluation process was quite strict, favoring applicants in conditions of extreme biomedical vulnerability. Despite adopting the social model, BPC eligibility is tied to medical diagnosis. ER -