Os Coredes e a agenda governamental : uma análise das mudanças do programa dos Coredes nos governos estaduais do Rio Grande do Sul - 1991/2014.

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the process of conformation and development of a public policy of Regional Development with participatory character - the Program of Coredes - created in the early 1990s in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Research theoretically The agenda of the public policy area, more specifically, the models of multiple flows and punctuated equilibrium, which focus on the pre-decisional moment of public policy. The models indicate that for a new problem to enter the governmental agenda, it is necessary to open an "opportunity window" or a "critical moment", in which political entrepreneurs would combine problems, solutions and political dynamics. The empirical investigation of the research was carried out through content analysis, based on the categorizations raised through semi-structured interviews containing a set of open questions, applied to the state managers who were in the Coordination and or Direction of the sectors responsible for the monitoring and management of the Program of Coredes in RS, as well as two interviews with actors that integrate Coredes. As a result, Coredes position changes according to the understanding of political decision-makers about the importance of participatory institutional arrangements for public management, since the division of power with society in the discussion of public issues is still strange To the logic that governs several governments, highlighting clientelistic relations in public spaces. In this context, they appear in the interviews with the difficulties faced by Coredes leaders in relation to the homologation, by the state management, of their decisions in relation to the priority regional projects, emphasizing the power dispute between the members of the government and the Coredes through Consultation Popular, which in a way presents more the divergent than convergent character in relation to the interests at stake. In this way, the centrality of Coredes becomes relative, configuring itself to homologate pre-conceived decisions rather than being protagonists in the struggle for a wider space within the decision-making process.