Brazilian graduate studies are marked by intense regional, ethnic-racial and economic inequalities, which led to the beginning of the debate about the creation of affirmative action for students belonging to historically excluded groups in graduate programs and public universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The literature on affirmative action and public policy rarely analyzes the specifics of the agenda-setting process and the formulation of these policies, or the reasons why affirmative action for graduate became important for theuniversities and the government, which alternatives have been chosen and what the main actors involved in the process. This paperaims to contribute to the literature of public policy and explain how the creation of affirmative action resulted in the change of the traditional selection process carried out by graduate programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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