Interações estratégicas para o desenvolvimento e vantagens institucionais: o caso do CDES

Abstract

The CDES was designed to play a purposeful and articulation role for a development project through social dialogue. Doing so, CDES would make possible strategic interactions for development and could be settled as an institutional advantage. The thesis investigates whether the Council has played this role in Brazilian political economy over the eight years of the Lula government by analyzing contextual dimensions and institutional learning. It is observed that since its creation in 2003 until the end of the second Lula government, CDES has been an important arena for dialogue on development and showed significant fluctuations in intensity and form of debate over the years. It is possible to note the nuances guided by political and economic context and the institutional maturing process, in the analysis of each phase of CDES the creation and structuring, in Lula's first term, and institutional strengthening with intermittent strategic interactions in the second. At the stage of the beginning (2002-2004) there is concern about the spread of the culture of consultation, the need for greater institutional dynamics by the participants and the articulation of key players of the new coalition, in a context of weak governance of the first left-wing government elected in Brazil. The following period (2005-2006), the structuring of the Council took place in a delicate political situation. Despite the difficulties, it was a period of institutional maturity, deepening the diagnosis of the importance of a common plan for development. In the third phase (2007-2010), in Lula's second term, the ideas gestated in CDES gained more dynamism with the two-way flow between the government and participants expanding to other areas of government. This Council s phase took place in a changing context of PT's strategy of the composition of its governing coalition and was characterized by a strong intensification of the activities and for fruitful strategic interactions during the 2008 crisis. Despite the coordination unprecedented and visibility in government in 2009, there was a rapid dismantling of the established dynamic during 2010. It is pointed out as the main legacy of the CDES the change in perspective of the participants about the importance of directing the debate to national issue in spite of sectoral ones.