Avaliação da experiência do orçamento participativo numa cidade média: o caso de Jaboticabal - SP.
Abstract
The strength of the county power since 1988 made possible a greater autonomy by
the counties in local range. Parallely in some counties came out mechanism of
institutional inovation which aim the common citizen to take part into the decisions
around the municipal budget. These expiriences denominated Participatory Budget
(PB) are developed nowadays in more than hundred brazilian counties. This
assignment aimed to describe and interpretate the mainly characteristics from
Participatory Budget developed in the county of Jaboticabal from 1999 2002; topics
related to Coordination, the framework and dynamic of the Participatory instaces and
the relation of this process to the municipal budget. This assignment also proposes to
understand the factors related to the PB conclusion from 2003, based on variable
explanation present on the literature. To fulfill the proposal of this assignment,
surveys were made with the coordination rep and other members from the
admnistrative area, collection and documentation analises. The results proved that
the PB Coordination was directly tied to Admnistration and not to an organism
associated to a Participatory process and despite of occupying a strategical position
in the administration and develop several procedures, the coordination was not
successful in inserting the PB in the core of Political Admnistration. Regarding the
format and dynamic of the Participatory Instance, it was noticed a simplification
comparing to others expiriences, leading to a reduction in numbers of Participatory
Instances and Rep´s which made difficult the process function. In the county PB was
deliberated a restrict part of the total investiment, uncharacterizing and illegitimating
these instances as they were the chiefly decision making location. The use of
variable present on the literature with explination capacity for the process
performance, allowed a better comprehension over the PB conclusions from 2003