Para definir o que é o Orçamento Participativo : uma leitura a partir dos elementos centrais de sua estrutura e dinâmica de funcionamento em Porto Alegre de 1989 a 2004

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

The present thesis aims to conceptualize, with the maximum possible accuracy, what the Participatory Budget in Porto Alegre is. This experience has been spread throughout Brazil and the world, and it has been especially recommended by multilateral funding agencies like the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. It has become synonymous with good management of public resources; wherever there is PB (Participatory Budget) referred to as based upon the ¿PB in Porto Alegre¿, there is sign of good government. But is it true? The first step to answer this question is to clearly define what the PB in Porto Alegre is. This is what we propose on this thesis. Our hypothesis is that this definition should be based, initially, and necessarily, on the elements that can be found in the rules of the PB, since they would be a record of a succession of political agreements that gave the PB its significance. In order to meet these core elements, we analyze the rules, structure and dynamics of the experience of Porto Alegre, and then try to identify their context of emergence. But the simple listing of key elements is not sufficient to automatically create a concept. To do so, reflection and theoretical exercise are needed. Many authors, using different strategies of theoretical approach to the experience, have reflected on the experience, seeking to create or test concepts. Our thinking has always been anchored in the core elements obtained from the analysis of the rules and history of the PB focusing on the studies of Sergio Baierle, Tarso Genro, Celina Souza and Leonardo Avritzer. The first have been precursors of the search for a definition to the PB, and perhaps the ones who have longer been studying it. Virtually all the subsequent studies debate their concepts. Souza and Avritzer, in turn, offer a good summary of the PB¿s interpretive schools, while seeking broader concepts than each of them in particular. Despite several attempts undertaken in the literature, at the end of our bibliographic journey we end up by the need to build a more complete concept than those presented. That s because none of the definitions found incorporates all the elements that we believe essential to define the PB in Porto Alegre. Yet these definitions do not get totally lost. With some modifications in the definitions of Sergio Baierle and Tarson Genro ¿ and from, especially the criticism of Leonardo Avritzer - and with the full incorporation of the core elements identified in the analysis of the rules of the experiment we have reached a good concept.

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democracia poder executivo porto alegre (rs) political institutions participação popular politica municipal participatory budget social change municípios orçamento participativo municipal executive

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