Cidadania e gestão do processo de desenvolvimento : um estudo sobre a atuação dos conselhos regionais e municipais de desenvolvimento do Rio Grande do Sul, de 1990 a 2009.

Abstract

This thesis deals with the management of the local and regional development processes, fo-cusing on citizenship and participation of civil society, by understanding the operation of the Regional Development Councils (Coredes) and Municipal Development Councils (Comudes) as privileged spaces for the practice of deliberative democracy, and the relations established with the State along the historical trajectory of these councils. Interpretive research of qualita-tive nature and the knowledge built are marked by intersubjectivity and interactivity on many levels: the researcher / citizen with the empirical field and the subjects involved in the pro-cess, the researcher / citizen with the authors who discuss this subject and the researcher / citi-zen himself. Permeated by interdiscursivity, discusses the theoretical knowledge about partic-ipation, citizenship, democracy, decentralization, civil society and development advice, re-viewing necessary concepts for interactive participatory process between civil society and the State. With these assumptions, seeks to answer to what extent the performance of Comudes and Coredes strengthens the process of building citizenship and the management of the local and regional development, in Rio Grande do Sul, between 1990 and 2009. Charting variables and characteristics of deliberative processes, establishing analysis source that guides the re-flective-analytical and interpretative description from documents, standards, narrative inter-views and participant observation, thereby building a reading of the historical trajectory of Coredes. It also examines the Comudes work in a region of 28 Coredes that exist today, in or-der to understand how these public spaces of a nature more local, more recent existence, are being built to link social network aimed at promoting the local and regional development. The conclusions indicate that Coredes and Comudes constitute to institutional arrangements of in-teraction between civil society and the State that comes significantly impacting the dynamics of political and social organization of Rio Grande do Sul. However, it is evident the need to expand the citizens participation, especially of the less organized and popular segments, in different instances of the processes and organizational structure in these public spaces, in-creasing the chances of effectively deliberative practices on this experience. Place as chal-lenge to interrelate the significant role that Coredes, and especially the Forum of Coredes, ex-ert as articulator of deliberative citizenship dynamics in complex societies of the regional, macro-regional and state, with local dynamics that should be better articulated by Comudes interacting with Coredes, enabling more capillarity to the micro-territorial spaces of the city. The perceived differences of infrastructure, of agent and resources between councils and the limited participation of community segments may be associated with lack of strategic devel-opment plans in various Coredes, a gap that is being addressed (supply) at the beginning of 2010. It will be evaluated, in the future, if the existence of the plans makes the councils less likely to capture of interest of groups, confirming the key concepts that have guided the ac-tions of the Forum as thinking regionally, awareness, autonomy, independence and regional identity, constituting an educational process for the construction of spaces boosted of interac-tive citizenship.