Emancipations in the state of Rio Grande do Sul: rationality or inconsequence in the municipalization proceedings

• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Ivan Antônio
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Outros Autores: Motta, Paulo Cesar Delayti
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6500
• topic: public administration; municipal administration; emancipation movements; public policies.; administração pública; administração municipal; emancipações; políticas públicas.

This paper discusses the inconsistencies found in the emancipation legal proceedings of 30 counties in Rio Grande do Sul. The emancipation proceedings consist of various documents, beginning with the accreditation of an emancipation committee and ending up with the promulgation of an Executive act installing the new municipality. The set of all the proceedingsdocuments constitutes a dossier, and the detailed analysis of these dossiers has revealed a wide range of inconsistencies. There is not, e.g., a single motivation sustaining the emancipatory arguments throughout all the cases;and often the information put into the repercussion study is not compatible with that presented in the emancipation committee justifications. What is more startling is the total lack of attention regarding the budgetary, financial and fiscal aspects affecting both the new county and the base-municipality. In fact, the analysis shows that there is not any objective rationalitywhatsoever throughout all the phases of the emancipation proceedings. What the analysis does indicate is that the proceedings reflect much more an interplay of political interests than the satisfaction of the emancipationists’ real needs.