City Cuncils: participation, efetiveness and institutionalization – the influence of political context in the dynamics of councils. The cases of Porto Alegre and Salvador

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Antonio Sérgio Araujo
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/5166

The paper issues three categories of analysis in the literature of local councils in Brazil: the nature of the participation of councilors, the effectiveness of councils and the institutional design. The paper argues the hypothesis of the influence of the local political context in the formation and trajectory of councils. The political context in Porto Alegre and Salvador has influenced the two councils differently in terms of participation, effectiveness and institutionalization. The research is a comparison of the Local Health Councils in the cities of Salvador and Porto Alegre between 2005 and 2007, and shows that the difference in the dynamics of the functioning and organization of councils have influenced different local political contexts in local power experienced in the two cities between the nineteen nineties and the first five years of the twenty-first century.