Public policy councils: challenges to their institutionalization

• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, Carla Bronzo Ladeira
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6439
• topic: sectorial councils; social service; childhood and adolescence; Children’s Statute; Social Welfare Organic Act; participation; representation; accountability.; conselhos setoriais; democratização; infância e adolescência; Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente; Lei Orgânica da Assistência Social; participação; representatividade; accountability.

The decentralization formalized by the 1988 Constitution made it institutionally and politically possible to establish sectorial councils on the three levels of government. New social configurations emerged from this constitutional change, establishing new institutional entities and setting new grounds for the State-society relationship. This paper is a result of a research that examined two sectorial councils in order to shed some light upon the issues involved in the implementation of the institutional mechanisms that make it possible to have more participation and accountability in public management. Thus, the exploratory study analyzed the various constraints that influence public management performance, by focusing on the children¿s rights council and on the social welfare council and their performance in the state of Minas Gerais and a few of its towns.