Reforma do Estado, participação popular e democracia: por uma arquitetura de administração participativa integrada

Resumo

Since the end of the 80's, Latin America has been a stage for neoliberal
oriented state reforms and its unpopular economic policies. Nonetheless,
another kind of policy refoms appeared In the continent, experiencies that
emphasize democracy and popular participation. The Workers Party (PT)
administration in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, is an exemple of this kind
of democratic political change. The cornerstone of the Popular
Administration is the Participative Budget: a process of budgeting done by
elected representatives of the people. This successful experience should
inspire a course of political change for the whole Country, regarding some
new realities that may emerge. The issues of distances, for Brazil is a
large country, and of instances, the distribution of policy competences
between the members of the Federal Union, have to be dealt with for the
accomplishment of such a change.