Democracia e participação no Brasil: um estudo de caso das conferências nacionais de políticas públicas de 2003-2010.

Abstract

Brazil has experienced, after its democratization, the process of creating democratic participatory and deliberative innovations. Throughout the 1990 s, these experiments were mainly linked to local political dynamics. From 2003, this phenomenon expands to the national dynamics powered by the national public policy conferences (NPPCs) experience. Dynamics of this kind challenge arguments based on the impossibility of reconciling the contemporary democratic dynamic and participation beyond the right to vote. This dissertation s hypothesis is to demonstrate the possibility of conceiving these participatory and deliberative mechanisms as capable of deepening current democratic regimes. Considering national conferences as the object study, we intend to investigate its potential to pluralize the aggregation process of societal preferences, indicating their ability to impact the cycle of public policy, as a consequence the representative institutions would become more responsive to the society s demands. The empirical test will be conducted by the crosschecking between the NPPCs deliberations and legislative proposals for the period 2003-2010.