This article identifies the actors involved in the public policies process, regarding the dominant theories of the policies analysis approach. This is a non-experimental bibliographical research, with a descriptive study. From this approach there were chosen: Jones’s public policy cycle; the configuration of actors and the reference of public policy of Muller; the framework of the promoter coalitions of Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith; and the decisional model of Dente and Subirats. An important contribution of the policy analysis approach is that it identifies the actors that intervene in public decisions.