Democratic participation as an instrument of social control of public management

Abstract

In Brazil, from the redemocratization process, several political and social rearrangements occurred, the most notable being the state political change, the decentralization of power and the mobilization of disadvantaged groups in the search for meeting their demands. In this particular, an explicit tension persists between social movements and political representation, a typical characteristic of liberal democracies, especially in the Brazilian case, this because the active participation of the citizen is the mechanism by which social control is established, that is, the process of regulation of the State by civilians, which seeks to consider the interests of individuals in public decisions. This study aims to understand the mechanisms established between society and the State, analyzing the motivations of civil participation in political spaces, concluding that in contemporary democracies, the active participation of the social subject and the social control exercised by collective arrangements - in the face of the political force that supports resistance and consensus in territories of understanding – tend to ensure basic rights and social justice, which is why the relevance of spaces for participation is recognized as a reference for the substantiation of active democracy.