Entre os limites da cultura política e o fortalecimento da sociedade civil : o processo do orçamento participativo no município de Cariacica

• Autor(a) principal: Bruce, Karin Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6501
• topic: participative budget; social participation; social policy; orçamento participativo; participação social; política social; Serviço Social; Orçamento municipal; 32

In Brazil, the participative budget has been highlighted among the practices of participative management that emerged in the late 70 s during the movement for re-democratization of the country. In spite of the fact that there is a common agenda among these practices (councils, forums, sector chambers, etc) essentially aiming at the increase of the society participation in the decisive process, the participative budget renews because the popular participation starts through an area extremely sensitive: the budget. Because it is through the budget that many City Halls have kept the old client relations giving back the favors offered during the election campaigns. Thus, changing the decisions related to the city budgets from the hands of the executive power is an initiative that demands at least, the governor s political willingness. The present paper consists in a deepened study about the process of Participative Budget in the city of Cariacica (ES) involving its two years of implementation, 2005, 2006. The study analyses the process of construction, implementation and assessment of the experience besides describing all the methodological cycle of participative budget. The research still verifies the association tradition of the city analyzing the residents political participation and popular movement represented by the Federation of the Residents Associations of Cariacica (FAMOC). For this reason, the data were collected through observation, documental research, interviews with local leaderships and the performance of a focal group with the members of participative budget council (COP). The data were analyzed through a critical-dialectic method which makes possible to perceive the mediations and contradictions which involve this process. The experience in Cariacica (ES) has shown that, although the participative budget have brought a potential of a greater popular participation in the political decisions of the city and consequently it has become a space where the sectors historically excluded in the society can daily defend their interests in an autonomous and clarified way, the participation that historically developed in our country brings a series of limits which make it difficult the consolidation of this instrument as a locus where possible movements of counter-hegemony may be manifested. Hence, the participative budget is not composed by a unique, homogenous non-conflict form. On the contrary, it is inserted in a battle field of interests in a constant correlation of powers between the State and civil society.