Institucionalização e efetividade: a importância do desenho institucional dos conselhos para as políticas públicas.

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to explore some aspects of the institutionalization and effectiveness of national public policy councils. To this end, four Brazilian national councils were selected - the National Health Council, the National Council for Social Assistance, the National Council for Food and Nutrition Security and the National Human Rights Council - that have had different trajectories in terms of the legal rules on its constitution, giving rise to different institutional designs and different degrees of institutionalization. The question that guides the research is: what is the importance of institutional design for the effectiveness and institutionalization of a public policy council? The general argument is that the institutionalization of the councils plays a fundamental role for their effectiveness and for their performance in the shared management of policies, having the institutional design impact both on the functioning of the councils, their degree of institutionalization and, as a result, its effectiveness. Although it was not possible to empirically verify this argument, a review of the literature and a discussion of the concepts and the different determinants of the institutionalization and effectiveness of the councils were carried out, and some evidence was presented to support the arguments developed.