Direitos humanos e políticas públicas : os conselhos nacionais de direitos enquanto esferas democráticas de gestão de políticas públicas.

Abstract

This research is an analysis about the subject of participatory councils that manages the public policies of rights defense, promotion and guarantee. Through the analysis of their institutional characteristics, passing in their composition, and representational mechanisms – in away that we can evaluate, formally, if they are spaces with rules and prescriptions that can inclusion of networks, forums and social movements. In the making of this research we utilized a deductive method, combined with a monographic procedure, and bibliographical and documental technics – elaborating, through a theoretical revision the conceptions, and categories by which we could limit our studies object, passing to the documental examination, the analysis of the rules and norms that give the councils forms and characteristics. Firstly, in cause of the policies theme that are bounded to the council, it was necessary to study the concepts of human rights, in away that we could elaborate a difference between and hegemonic paradigm and a critical perspective, and concept,of human rights, that deal with the political and historical exclusion of others. In the same movement, it was dealt with democracy, exposing the hegemonic paradigm, and the philosophy that it’s informed, criticizing it, and bringing the critical contribution, and propositions of an radicalized project of participation and inclusion.In a second we ve approached the public policy subject, delimitating what is understood as public policy, and concentrating the assumption of their management as and complex of decisions that are made in the policy cycle – presenting the importance, and the characteristics of councils in this process. In a last moment we ve did the evaluation of councils rules, through of categories that permitted the knowledge of their institutional power – the possibility of influence in the policy cycle–, and their openness to excluded collective subjects – the formal prescription, or mention, networks, forums and movements participation in this Institutions.In a way that abled to evaluate this institutions as spaces of democratic management of public policies that include those collective subjects.