Public Policies, Neoliberalism and Social Participation: Transitions and Dilemmas

• Autor(a) principal: de Paula, Ana Paula Paes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Prezotti Palassi, Márcia, Zanon, Rogério Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/84362
• topic: social participation, public policies, neoliberalism, conservatism, democracy.; participación social, políticas públicas, neoliberalismo, conservatismo, democracia.; participação social, políticas públicas, neoliberalismo, conservadorismo, democracia.

The aim of this article is to highlight how Brazilian researchers have approached participatory public policies in recent years, by elaborating some theoretical categorizations of participatory experiences from relevant literature, in order to assess their limits in face of the transitions and dilemmas of the political context, especially with regard to changes in neoliberalism  profile. For such, a brief history of participatory experiences in the scope of public administration and public policies in Brazil is presented in the first section. In the second section, the way Brazilian researchers address the new participatory institutional arrangements and their dynamics in recent years is questioned, based on a non-systematic survey of theoretical articles on the topic published from 1980 to 2020, to present two predominant research strands: analytical and critical. In the third section, the recent conservative turn and the resurgence of neoliberalism, which presents a new face and threat to social participation in Brazil, and its repercussions on the identified research aspects are discussed. In the final remarks, some limits of the article, as well as new questions for discussion and debate are presented.