Participação popular na gestão pública municipal de Montes Claros 2005- 2008: avanço ou continuísmo?

Abstract

This dissertation presents a study on the management model adopted in Montes Claros - MG years 2007 and 2008 called Partnership for Governance. This is a qualitative research conducted from unsystematic observations and interviews with social actors who participated in the activities proposed by the municipal executive in those years. The work provides a discussion of the new institutionalized forms of participation and democratic progress made since the reopening of the Brazilian state policy contexts permeated by a conservative, elitist political culture process. More particularly, discusses how the Partnership for Governance is inserted as an institutional arrangement that advances in democratic terms with widening participation and social control in Montes Claros - MG, marked by a political culture based on the old politics of the halter and favor. We conclude that although it has not made much progress in regard to controlling the budget and municipal public works, contributed to the exercise and the transformation of culture of participation .