O ORÇAMENTO PARTICIPATIVO E A GESTÃO DEMOCRÁTICA DE GOIÂNIA

Abstract

This research will discuss the new forms of public administration inserted at the top of the participative democracy dynamic, which has been, day after day, gaining emphasis in the scope of the municipal public administrations. The research focuses on the analysis of the Participative Budget program, as a space of a permanent relationship of the local government with its citizens, through a process that stimulates the participation, where the community proposes, discusses and decides about the application of the installment of the public budget destined for the investments. This ability to communicate with the local government strengths the democratic principles while at the same time arousing a political culture in the participating citizens, thus making them more participative and critical. On the other hand, the administrations that adopt this program become targets of a higher control by the society when it comes to the application of the public resources. The research revealed that through methods applied in the direct participation of the citizens, this program can become a tool that can avoid politics with populist and clientelist traits that still are a reality at various municipal administrations. In order to focus the study on both opportunities where the program was implemented in Goiânia, an interrelation analysis between the State, Democracy and Power was used, and it worked with the following problematization: Did the Participative Budget contribute to democratize the municipal administration in Goiânia? Based on this objective, this study looks to rescue the data of various stages associated with the review of the specific literature, which contributed to validation of a few of the hypotheses raised, especially in regards to the decisive power conceded to the participants in matters of administrative order in the public administration of the city.