ORÇAMENTO PARTICIPATIVO E POLÍTICAS SOCIAIS: UM INVENTÁRIO DAS CORRELAÇÕES NA EXPERIÊNCIA DE SANTA MARIA - RS

Abstract

This dissertation includes the analysis of correlations between novel participative budget and social policies, from the case study of the municipality of Santa Maria-RS, identifying what are the implications of participatory practice on the allocation of budgetary resources and implementation of health policies, housing, education and welfare in the period 1997 to 2008. Initially, the study provides a theoretical ownership, producing significant reflections, especially on the categories democracy, participatory budgeting, social policies and budget. In this scope, it is a pluralistic dialogue between analytical aspects, interpret seeking to establish relations and draw conclusions for speeches. Thus, research in this dissertation guides prepared in the hermeneutic-dialectic method, supporting the method is methodologically called "case study" approach and covers the interaction between the qualitative and quantitative inputs. In the process of research, data collection took place through the reunion of contemporary primary documents related to the budgeting process and practice of participatory budgeting that occurred in the municipality. In the design of participatory practice, focuses on the analysis of the evolution of decision making, with attention to the institutions of participation involving the criteria and methodology for the distribution of budget resources, and also the data of the investments involved and the implementation of the demands from participation of each cycle. For the budget analysis is used to design laws, the laws and the Annual Balance Sheet Management in order to relate the changes in allocation and implementation of social policies with the kinds of institutional practices adopted in the process of drafting the budget. Absolutely spot, focuses on the production of an inventory of the correlations in the experiment of the municipality of Santa Maria, trying to establish a critical-analytical assessment of the results of this process with a view to construction of references, both for public management and for future studies involving other localities in a regional or national