ABSTRACT
The chapter analyzes the emergence and consolidation of results-based and results-oriented modes of regulation in the federal state of Brazil, focusing on their manifestations: (a) the accountability policies formulated and implemented in several Brazilian states; (b) the adoption of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) by an important body of the Brazilian federal high administration, and the adoption of the ‘PISA-based Test for Schools’ at state and local levels. The analysis highlights the diversification and integration effects on public policies, resulting from the tension between transnational, national, regional and local regulatory dynamics. Theoretically based on the 'multi-regulation' approach to education policy, and having as its main empirical basis the results, the chapter then unfolds into two separate analyses which concern, respectively: (a) the mosaic of accountability policies in Brazil, focusing on the diverse types of accountability policy enactments in the country’s Northeastern states; (b) Brazil’s incorporation into the transnational circuits of ‘datafication’. In the first case, the chapter depicts the intra-national diversification on PBA enactment at state level. In the second case, its shows the diverse effects of the adherence to international references at federal, state and local levels. The chapter closes with a discussion of how these policies, currently in development, resonate with those policies that circulate internationally.
