ANALYSIS OF CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN ASSUMPTIONS OF DEMOCRACY AND REALITY IN PUBLIC POLICIES AT THE BILLINGS AND GUARAPIRANGA RESERVOIRS

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Francisco César Pinto da
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Escrivão Jr., Alvaro, Puppim, Ana Sílvia, Zanatta, Carolina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/18907

ABSTRACTThis paper reflects on the concept of democracy based on assumptions, which are also conceptual, such as information, accountability and social control, and it checks whether suchcharacteristics of the democratic system are present or not in the specific public policies (social/environmental) in the Billings and Guarapiranga reservoir region in São Paulo. For such, it analyzes social indicators (in the context of available information) in these regions, as well as actions by the Growth Acceleration Program's (PAC) Public Resources Observatory, a project coordinated by the Public Administration and Government Studies Center of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation of São Paulo (Ceapg/FGV-Eaesp). It concludes that the Brazilian state remains opaque before the demands for transparency and social control, consequently becoming little accountable despite the advances obtained since the country's redemocratization.KEY WORDS: Democracy, Accountability, Social Control, Public Policies, Social-Environmental Actions.