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| Author(s): |
Elielson Carneiro da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Luciana Ferreira Tatagiba;
Rachel Meneguello;
Maria da Glória Marcondes Gohn;
Maria do Carmo Alves de Albuquerque;
Wagner de Melo Romão
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| Advisor: | Luciana Ferreira Tatagiba |
| Abstract | |
The purpose of this study was to analyze the dynamics and outcomes of community participation in participatory budgeting in order to test the extent to which participation of social actors was on autonomy in the participatory process and that participation resulted in social empowerment. The context specific empirical research was the city of Araraquara (SP) and the purpose of this systematic research on participatory experience that was reflected from the underlying assumptions of research, the extent to which the government sought to involve and commit individuals in the registry of a more autonomous and to what extent the government exercised control over mechanisms of such participation. In this sense, from conducting a survey and in-depth interviews, investigated the views of these representatives regarding their influence on the preparation of investment plans, the strategies they employed to secure resources and the exercise of authority over the process of decision making, as well as monitoring and surveillance process. With regard to results, it is notable that there was a relative autonomy of representatives, demonstrated by the considerable freedom to organize the process of public involvement in the OP. This freedom was guaranteed, mainly due to the existence of a robust participatory design based on the experiences of Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul implemented at the beginning of the first government, when there was a political will to strengthen the participatory process and ensure that there was a recognition that the community actually interfered in the definition of investment, this design greatly conditioned the actions of the government and the community. An outcome of the process, there was one on community empowerment, to the extent that it interfered greatly in the definition of investment - although it was noted the absence of effective monitoring of works of investments defined in OP as well as the establishment of rules for functioning. It appears that the primary objective of the government to create the OP was in Araraquara defuse opposition at City Hall and guarantee mechanisms of governance, ie, there was a visible face, to democratize public management, and a hidden face, defuse opposition at City Hall. To the extent that solidified a strategy of institutional relationship with the Legislative Hall, which turned out to neutralize the action of the opposition that institution become loose alliance priority with the community through the Participatory Budget and the project has come to occupy a peripheral space in government (AU) | |