Is Direct Participation in Co-production Democratic? Dengue Vector Control in Campo Grande – MS

• Autor(a) principal: Chaebo, Gemael
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Medeiros, Janann Joslin
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/cgpc/article/view/61067
• topic: Vector control; co-production; democracy; dengue; participation; Controle vetorial; coprodução; democracia; dengue; participação.

The co-production approach considers the active participation of public service users to be essential in policy implementation. The greater direct influence of citizens on public policies that is sought in this approach appears to be aligned with the principles of democracy. In order to better understand the relationship between user participation and democracy in co-production, the goal of this paper is to characterize public service users participation in the co-production of dengue vector control in Campo Grande – MS, Brazil. Data collected in five districts of the municipality were analyzed using content analysis. Findings revealed that in the five cases studied, service users (i) are included in the production relationship with public service professionals, (ii) are capable of producing policy results, and (iii) are benefited by the results produced. However, if full democratic participation in co-production is to be achieved, users have yet to exert influence on other policy processes, not limiting their participation to merely executing actions proposed by the public authorities.