A efetividade das institucionalidades participativas : uma análise a partir do Conselho Regional de Desenvolvimento e da consulta popular no Vale do Rio Pardo/RS.

Abstract

This thesis discusses the effectiveness of participation In the process of Popular Consultation and in the (COREDE VRP). These participatory institutions were created by the government of State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the decade of 1990, with the objective of opportunize the participation of society in the government planning and in the allocation of resources budget resources, seeking reduce the regional inequalities and promote the development. It is presented, in a first moment, a reflection about the normative assumptions that sustained these bets in democracy innate of participatory spaces, both in the Academic scope as in public management. Then, from the contributions of relational sociology and of institutionalism, analyzed the institutional arrangements of COREDE VRP and of Popular Consultation, demonstrating how was constituted the participation of different actors in these spaces and which actors that have greater capacity of influence in the deliberative processes. In methodological terms, the research was developed through of two case study: COREDE VRP and Popular Consultation in the VRP, performed along 2015. In these studies, was used of different procedures and instruments of data collection data collection, which involved the application of questionnaires to the members the Assembly of COREDE VRP, semi-structured interviews with representatives of all segments and old leadership of council, documentary analysis and observation direct in meetings and events. The analysis of data collected showed that these participatory institutions suffer a strong influence of state government, what comes to question their autonomy proclaimed in the speeches of their leaders and in academic works produced in these spaces. It was found, also, that these participatory spaces are very fragile, given their dependence of state resources and the fact of present a predominance of political actors among their cadres, many of them directly linked to public management. This points to problems of inequality of representation in these spaces, making them preponderate the guidelines related to governmental management. In relation to effective participation, we could see that the actors that have greatest capacity of mobilization and of resources (organizational, financial and relational) are those who frequent these spaces, in general linked to sectors and public bodies and civil society organizations better structured. Largely, these actors are those that can be contemplated with resources of Popular Consultation (health, agriculture and education). The interviews revealed, furthermore, the lack of capillarity of this COREDE with the regional civil society and, including, with the political leaders of municipalities of region (mayors and councilors), who prefer to seek other channels to mediate their lawsuits. Lastly, the research pointed that the opportunities political are appropriated mainly by the associative actors better placed in these participatory spaces, contesting the theses that naturalize their democratic potential and pointing to the distance existing between the objectives postulated in their documents, in special the insert the plurality of regional social actors, and their democratic and contribution to development.