Democratization of social policy in Brazil: Fortunes and misfortunes of civil society organizations

Authors

  • Graziele Andrade Resende PUC Minas
  • Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2014.1.10689

Keywords:

Civil society organizations. Public policies. Popular participation. Municipal councils. Participatory democracy.

Abstract

This paper discusses the democratization of social policies through decentralization in Brazil. The authors make a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of decentralization of public policies in the Brazilian context and its repercussions on the democratization of social policies based on two phenomena that conform the attempts to modernize the state: the diffusion of municipal councils and the promotion of partnerships between civil society organizations and governments for the provision of social services. This is a theoretical paper that builds on different literature sources on popular participation, policy councils, relations between state and civil society and Brazilian political culture. The analysis points to the persistence of important challenges to the consolidation of political processes guided by the participatory democracy in Brazil, which eventually renew and bring new dimensions for traps and risks of centralization of power, technocratic power and expansion of the clientelism in contemporary Brazilian political reality.

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Author Biographies

Graziele Andrade Resende, PUC Minas

Consultoria de Parcerias Institucionais da APAE Contagem Especialista em Gestão e Elaboração de Projetos Internacionais - Ênfase no Terceiro Setor Bacharel em Administração de Empresas pela PUC Minas

Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Administração (PPGA) da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). Pesquisador das áreas de Gestão Social e Ambiental, Políticas Públicas e Estudos Organizacionais. Seus interesses de pesquisa concentram-se em Organizações da Sociedade Civil, Responsabilidade Socioambiental de Empresas, Participação Popular em Políticas Públicas e Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Doutor em Administração de Empresas pela Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (EAESP) da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Mestre em Ciências Sociais (Gestão de Cidades) pela PUC Minas e Graduado em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade Federa de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

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Published

2014-04-11

How to Cite

Resende, G. A., & Teodósio, A. dos S. de S. (2014). Democratization of social policy in Brazil: Fortunes and misfortunes of civil society organizations. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 14(1), 177–192. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2014.1.10689

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2014): Dialogues of the South

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