GENESIS OF THE LEGISLATIVE SCHOOLS IN BRAZIL

HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE CREATION OF THE EL-ALMG

Abstract

In 2018, while the Federal Constitution of 1998 celebrated 30 years in Brazil, the Legislative Schools' trajectory totalized 25 years old. In 1993 was created, in the country, the first organization for corporate education as a parliament's section, which would be called the 'Legislative School' (EL - acronym in Portuguese) at the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais (ALMG - acronym in Portuguese). Currently, there are around 200 organizations (schools, centers, and institutes), belonging to the legislative branches, in the three levels of government, that have emerged in the post-redemocratization period. In this article, with the aim of describing and analyzing the genesis of these institutions in the national legislative branch, a case study of the creation of EL-ALMG is conducted. It is a contribution to the background and the memory of this concept/structure of training, qualification, and formation into the legislative bodies. The historical line, derived from the documental analysis from ALMG's archives and parliamentary speeches, is organized chronologically and shows that this new model emerged as an outcome from the process of administrative modernization in the legislative branch, likewise that the government schools have swollen in the executive branch, after the managerial reform from 1995's.