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Este texto tem como objetivo refletir sobre a trajetória de uma iniciativa inovadora que surgiu na cidade de Pelotas, caracterizada pela frase "todo poder vem do povo". Em 1984, sob a liderança do então prefeito Bernardo de Souza, do Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB), foi implementado um ambicioso projeto de democratização e participação cidadã na administração pública. O projeto se baseava na criação de um sistema de assembleias públicas, que promovia encontros em cada bairro, terminando em uma grande assembleia municipal. Nos fóruns, a população teve a oportunidade de debater temas relevantes, tais como investimentos públicos, políticas tributárias e reajustes salariais para o funcionalismo público. Apesar de ter sido relativamente curta, essa iniciativa teve um impacto significativo, contribuindo para a expansão de experiências de gestão pública participativa em todo o Brasil.

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This article aims to demonstrate, through study, the influence of participatory budgeting on the tax legislation of Franca/SP, examining changes in local legislation. It addresses the historical evolution of participatory budgeting in the city, highlighting its contributions to local democracy and public governance. The findings suggest that participatory budgeting and the number of studies in public hearings in Franca/SP have brought significant changes to legislation and promoted greater citizen involvement in budgetary decision-making. Despite challenges of the in-person system, it shows potential for expansion and improvement through electronic means, with significant implications for public policy and municipal governance, but which warrant further enhancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social participation in the management of local development is vital for its success and sustainability. The involvement of all local actors in their own development is a maxim for the government and Cuban society today. In view of this challenge, the objective of this research is to design a methodological guide for the application of participatory budgeting as a tool for participation in the management of local development in Cuba, based on the "Por tu Barrio" experience of La Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana. For this purpose, the following methods were used: historicallogical and systemic-structural, from a mixed methodological perspective. Based on the systematization and evaluation of the exercise, a methodology composed of five fundamental stages was proposed: preparation, organization, development, evaluation and feedback, and the lessons learned were determined, highlighting that the participatory budget should be developed in articulation with the rest of the public management instruments, that the municipal government should set itself up as a leader and that the neighborhood identity, the socio-demographic characteristics and the culture of participation condition the model. The relationship of the tool with the Municipal Development Strategies was also analyzed, showing the singular elements in the Cuban context for its socialization and replication. This research, due to its scope and object, constitutes a scientific novelty and an important reference, not only for studies on the subject, but also for local governments that determine the implementation of participatory budgeting in Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumo O artigo analisa fatores associados à descontinuidade do orçamento participativo (OP) em municípios brasileiros acima de 50 mil habitantes no período entre 2000 e 2016. A pesquisa foi analisada pela estimação de modelos econométricos com foco em variáveis explicativas políticas e pela propensão do ambiente local à participação. Os resultados indicam que a descontinuidade está associada positivamente com a troca do partido do prefeito municipal entre as eleições, a despeito da ideologia do partido; positivamente com a troca da ideologia do partido do prefeito, com a entrada de partidos de esquerda; negativamente com a entrada de partidos com outras ideologias; e positivamente com a troca entre partidos de esquerda. A descontinuidade não apresentou efeito com a troca entre partidos com outras ideologias. Os resultados indicam fatores locais e contextuais explicativos para a descontinuidade do OP, permitindo direcionar desenho de políticas públicas participativas e levantando reflexividade sobre mecanismos que devem ser adotados localmente para que não ocorra a descontinuidade, além de contribuir para a literatura ao demonstrar a associação entre a descontinuidade com a troca de partidos da esquerda, o que pode suscitar pesquisas futuras, dado que o resultado não era esperado.

Access to public information is guaranteed to citizens by the Brazilian Constitution, as well as by the Access to Information Law. Therefore, public management, in its different spheres, must make use of spaces that guarantee subjects full access to information, subsidizing practices of social control and popular participation. In this context, digital informational environments have been used with increasing frequency for the dissemination of information, either through official profiles of public bodies on social networks or on their websites. However, these digital informational spaces are not always planned so that information is fully accessible to citizens, which ends up hindering social control practices and the effective participation of these subjects in public management. In this scenario, specifically considering the scope of the Participatory Budget of the city of João Pessoa/PB, it was verified that the changes conferred by the current municipal management to the Program, named since 2021 as Programa Você Prefeito, inserted a new format of election of demands, the from online polls, but excluded the digital informational space intended for the dissemination of Program information to citizens. This is because, after the unification of the João Pessoa City Hall (PMJP) website, the institutional page for the PB was removed from the air, no longer presenting specific information about the Program. With this, the population only has access to news published on the PMJP page and posts on the Instagram profile, about the occurrence of assemblies and the period for voting in each region. However, considering that popular participation in the Program goes far beyond the choice of demands by region, which is restricted to just one stage of the Program cycle, it is understood that the change brought to the PMJP website resulted in the loss of important information and that would provide opportunities for knowledge about the PB, updating on the possibilities of participation and monitoring the execution of the demands, thus building a broad popular participation with the municipal public management throughout the Program cycle. This gap motivated this research, which aims to create a data observatory on Participatory Budgets in the city of João Pessoa/PB. It is expected, from the construction of this data observatory, to contribute to the dissemination of existing knowledge within the scope of local participatory democracy, as well as to make information about the PB easily accessible to all citizens, enabling greater transparency in public management and expanding the possibilities of popular participation in the management of municipal resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artigo apresenta o resultado do estudo de caso sobre o Orçamento Legislativo Participativo (OLP) de Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. À luz da perspectiva neoinstitucionalista, foi analisado e descrito o caso do OLP, o que compreendeu um resgate acerca da origem, trajetória, estrutura, e das normas e regras dessa experiência, assim como também foram explorados os elementos do seu desenho institucional que a qualificam como uma inovação democrática. O OLP é formatado pela interseção das prerrogativas do Orçamento Impositivo e do Orçamento Participativo, por isso, é apresentado tendo em conta as lógicas e os moldes destes dois instrumentos orçamentários. De natureza qualitativa e exploratória, o universo da pesquisa limitou-se à experiência do Sul da Ilha de Florianópolis, da qual resultaram nove projetos comunitários. Em síntese, a conclusão indica para a presença de elementos no desenho institucional do OLP que mantêm, adaptam e/ou inovam as lógicas e os moldes do Orçamento Impositivo e do Orçamento Participativo aplicados a essa experiência.

No Brasil, a partir do processo de redemocratização, diversos rearranjos políticos e sociais ocorreram, sendo os mais notáveis a mudança política estatal, a descentralização do poder e a mobilização dos grupos em desvantagem na busca do atendimento de suas demandas. Neste particular, persiste uma tensão explícita entre os movimentos sociais e a representação política, característica típica das democracias liberais, especialmente no caso brasileiro, isto porque a participação ativa do cidadão é o mecanismo pelo qual se estabelece o controle social, ou seja, o processo de regulação do Estado pelos civis, o qual busca considerar os interesses dos indivíduos nas decisões públicas. Este estudo visa compreender os mecanismos estabelecidos entre sociedade e Estado por meio da análise das motivações da participação civil nos espaços políticos. Ao fim, conclui que, nas democracias contemporâneas, a participação ativa do sujeito social e o controle social exercido pelos arranjos coletivos – face à força política que respalda a resistência e o consenso nos territórios de entendimento – tendem a assegurar os direitos básicos e a justiça social, razão pela qual se reconhece a relevância dos espaços de participação como referência para o consubstanciamento da democracia ativa

Considerado como uma das principais inovações democráticas do mundo contemporâneo, o Orçamento Participativo (OP) completou mais de 30 anos desde o seu surgimento em Porto Alegre, capital do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no ano de 1989. No Brasil, após o processo de expansão ocorrido até meados dos anos de 2000, esta instituição participativa vem sofrendo uma queda no decorrer dos anos, alcançando um maior patamar de declínio a partir das eleições de 2016. Diante disso, o trabalho pretende, a partir da atualização dos dados (de 2019) de ocorrência de OPs nos três Estados do sul do país - Paraná, Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul -, analisar o fenômeno da extinção dos OPs na região, mobilizando alguns fatores, como a derrota do PT nas eleições municipais, problemas financeiros, baixa participação social, perda de importância estratégica eleitoral do OP, e a adoção de outras modalidades menos exigentes de participação, a exemplo das Audiências Públicas.

Objective of the study: The subject of the study are participatory budgets - social innovations used by local municipalities to involve citizens in local budgetary decisions with roots in Brazil. The main objective was to determine how being part of a social network affects the decision to introduce participatory budgets made by municipalities in Poland, where a remarkable spread of the innovation has been observed since the early 2010s. Methodology: Spatial autocorrelation tests and visualizations were used to uncover clusters of communes with most similar or dissimilar characteristics. Originality/Relevance: Novelty of the study approach lies in the utilization of an own database - with the intention to overcome the problem of data insufficiency, typical of related research. Main results: The presence of spatial proximity-based peer effects was confirmed in the study. The concentration of innovators has remained spatially uneven, which is to be linked to e.g. the crossregionally diverse forms of social capital. The data-based study design allows to explore participatory budgets as products of social networks and not only individual strategies, as evidenced by numerous case studies in the field. Methodological contributions: The study demonstrates the relevance of collecting longitudinal data for the development of research on participatory budgets. Social/management contributions: Insights from the study are of practical value for recent and future. adopters, wishing to understand the broader relevance of their policies, as well as for higher level policymakers trying to better adapt their legal frameworks to the current and future waves of innovators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The participation of citizens in the process of choosing the municipal budget allocation and in the monitoring of public spending is of significant importance, not only because it requires greater transparency on the part of public managers, but also because it strengthens the exercise of citizenship. In this scope, programs such as Participatory Budgets (PB) aim to ensure a closer relationship between citizens and municipal governments, so that the communities themselves can establish public policies that they consider to be priorities for public investment, in addition to monitoring the execution of actions. To this end, access to public information is paramount, guaranteeing citizens knowledge about all the actions adopted in the scope of Participatory Budgets. In this context, public managers have increasingly used digital informational environments as a space for the dissemination of information, through the websites of public agencies on the internet. However, these digital informational spaces are not always planned in such a way that information is fully accessible to citizens, revealing the need to structure these websites, in order to facilitate the findability of information. In this scenario, the contribution that Information Architecture can bring, through its recommendations, for these websites to be planned in order to meet the users' informational needs is highlighted. In this context, this project aims to analyze the possibilities of social participation in the Participatory Budget of the city of João Pessoa/PB, focusing on the functionalities of the institutional website of the Program. It is intended, through the characterization of this portal, the disclosure of available information about the OPJP and the identification of the possibilities of participation of the population of João Pessoa/PB in the Program, to elaborate a set of guidelines that enable a greater stimulus to social participation and transparency in public management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the factors associated with the discontinuation of participatory budgeting (PB) in Brazilian municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants between 2000 and 2016. We used econometric models to estimate PB's discontinuation based on political explanatory variables and people's local participation. The results indicate that discontinuation is associated: (i) positively with the election of a different local government, regardless of the winning party's ideology; (ii) positively with the election of a local government with a left-wing ideology'; (iii) negatively with the election of a non-left-wing local government; (iv) positively with the election of a left-wing local government replacing another left-wing government. Changes in local government where other non-leftwing parties replace non-left-wing parties had no significant effect on discontinuation. The results contribute to our knowledge by showing the local and contextual factors that explain the discontinuation of participatory budgeting; this should help guide the design of participatory public policies and allow practitioners to reflect on the mechanisms that could be adopted locally to avoid discontinuation. The article also contributes to the literature by demonstrating the association between discontinuation and changes in left-wing local governments, which may prompt future research, given the unexpected result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a theoretical review essay, highlighting the importance of participatory budgeting as a contemporary public management tool and the existence of instruments that help in the elaboration of this, given that the State needs to formulate public policies with adequate instruments, efficient, planned and responsible manner. The proposed theme is relevant for social development, as the adequate and efficient elaboration of the public budget is essential for the construction of a free, fair and solidary society, as well as presenting the means that citizens can use to monitor the budget and public spending in addition to carrying out the exercise of their citizenship, consolidating itself as a tool of contemporary public management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Esta pesquisa buscou analisar quais elementos, presentes nos processos de concepção, implementação e avaliação do orçamento participativo de Cambuí (Brasil), potencializam ou limitam a vigência de princípios e práticas democráticos no município, na perspectiva de representantes da população local. A coleta de dados se deu por meio de entrevistas, observação não participante e pesquisa documental e os dados foram analisados por meio da análise de conteúdo. Os resultados evidenciaram elementos que contribuíram para o fomento de princípios e práticas democráticos, tais como a cidadania inclusiva, a pluralidade de atores sociais e a liberdade de expressão. Também foram observados elementos que favorecem a consolidação da democracia local de modo mais perene. Há, contudo, necessidade de aprimoramento da experiência em aspectos específicos.

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Há 50 anos Habermas publicou “Mudança Estrutural da Esfera Pública”. Para o fi lósofo de Stanberg, herdeiro da Teoria Crítica, esfera pública – razão – discurso, são os temas fundamentais em sua extensa atividade acadêmica/pesquisa. A esfera pública, particularmente, é pensada no interior do Estado de direito democrático; não restando dúvidas no que diz respeito à importância no processo de formação da opinião pública e da vontade no âmbito da sociedade civil. Tomando por fundamento tais premissas, Habermas está convencido de que a democracia apresenta-se tanto como força cratológica do Estado quanto instância possibilitadora para práticas emancipatórias. Pretendemos demonstrar nesse artigo que Habermas ratifica a participação política dos cidadãos como fundamento e telos efetivo da democracia realizada procedimental-deliberativamente no interior da esfera pública. Nesse sentido, o Orçamento Participativo (Bürgerhaushalt), especificamente em sua arquitetônica principiológica, candidata-se enquanto cariz normativa e um efi caz instrumento participativo da/na esfera pública política (Politische Öff entlichkeit).

A principal função da nova Administração pública é aproximar o cidadão nas decisões que deverão ser tomadas no que se refere à adequada alocação dos recursos, garantido assim a recuperação dos valores democráticos sociais, em que o povo entende o que deve ser visto como prioridade e ainda fiscaliza tais recursos. O estudo buscou comparar a percepção dos gestores e munícipes da cidade de São Bento PB sobre o Orçamento Participativo e Controle Social. Por meio de uma abordagem qualitativa descritiva foi possível desenvolver um estudo de caso no município citado com uso de aplicação de um questionário junto a servidores da Gestão Pública e a outros cidadãos locais que contribuíram para coletar os dados necessários para as análises do problema. Através dos resultados, percebe-se que os conceitos relacionados a Orçamento Participativo e Controle Social ainda são pouco expostos para a população naquela localidade que desconhecem seus reais significados, dificultando sua participação na elaboração e execução desse processo democrático, apesar da Gestão afirmar que vem trabalhando de forma eficiente esses conceitos. Portanto, é importante ressaltar que as atividades de elaboração e execução do Orçamento Participativo, bem como a consciência da efetividade no Controle Social no município, devem ser estimulados para que os benefícios deste processo sejam refletidos em melhoria de vida para a população, onde os mesmos entendam a importância de sua participação nas decisões que envolvam o orçamento público.

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Participatory budgeting (PB) has been one of the most popular local democratic reforms in Latin America in recent decades. This article examines what happened to PB when it was scaled up to the state level and integrated in a participatory system in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2011–14). Using theories of deliberative systems, multichannel participation, 'venue shopping' (the practice of seeking the most favourable policy venue) and countervailing power, as well as a multimethod research design, we explain how the systems approach allowed for both deliberation and direct democracy and mobilised new sectors to participate online. However, on the negative side, the different participation channels undermined each other. Social movements migrated to other spaces, leaving the budgeting process open to control by well-established, powerful public-sector groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Making citizens aware of the importance of paying taxes and involving them in the decisionmaking process regarding the investments they consider to be a priority in their city is no easy task. Few Brazilian municipalities are able to make adequate use of the management instruments they have available, and in this regard, the Urban Property Tax (IPTU) is one of the main sources of revenue having a social function, especially when it becomes an adequate urban development policy. The objective is to analyze the "digital city" project in Engenheiro Beltrão, state of Paraná, entitled EBOnline, and the contribution of the participatory property tax to the existence of the project. The research methodology emphasizes a case study. The results show that it is possible to apply budget resources according to the opinion of the population. The money collected with the IPTU was reverted in free internet signal to citizens, enabling the city to be recognized as digital. The conclusion is that popular participation as an innovative method of urban management can be a reality, provided that strategies are designed to increase and encourage social participation, and the desires of citizens are met, thus contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of those who inhabit the cities, as was the case of the Engenheiro Beltrão digital city project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RESUMO O artigo argumenta que a dinâmica intrapartidária do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) explica a emergência de políticas públicas participativas nas administrações municipais desta organização e que acabaram diferenciando-a da tradição de pouco enraizamento social dos partidos políticos no Brasil. Utilizando de forma pioneira dados do Processo de Eleições Diretas do PT no nível local, analisamos como a dinâmica das facções do partido interfere na probabilidade de adoção, em suas administrações municipais, de políticas públicas destinadas à ampliação da participação política, a saber, as diversas versões locais do Orçamento Participativo (OP). Nossa hipótese é de que a probabilidade de adoção do OP como política pública em um município administrado pelo partido é uma função positiva da presença local de facções da esquerda do PT. Testamos nossa hipótese estimando diferentes especificações de modelos de regressão logística, incluindo uso de efeitos fixos e modelos hierárquicos, para o período de 2005 até 2012. Os resultados evidenciam a hipótese de que a composição interna do PT, medida por suas eleições internas, importa para a adoção do OP e aprofundam o nosso argumento que associa o PT e a sua dinâmica interna a políticas públicas distintivas e de perfil participativo.

Este artigo faz parte de uma agenda de pesquisa que tem origem na abordagem institucional e na economia política do orçamento público para a construção de modelo de análise da governança orçamentária em cidades brasileiras. O objetivo do artigo é analisar o processo de participação e conflito distributivo inerente ao orçamento público partindo de evidências dos municípios brasileiros no período de 2005 a 2018. Este texto apresenta reflexões iniciais sobre os limites para a realização do Orçamento Participativo decorrentes da crescente setorialização de gastos, da estrutura de receitas municipais e da crise de financiamento nos municípios, principalmente, a partir de 2014, que têm infligido dificuldades para a construção de uma arena coletiva para participação e negociação do conflito distributivo.

A filosofia política e a filosofia social têm se deparado ultimamente com desafios normativos que exigem cada vez mais esforços para respondê-los. Dentre eles está certamente o vertiginoso processo de despolitização da esfera pública que qual solapa a vida societária. Urge, portanto, sob o ponto de vista da pesquisa crítica, propor respostas para o referido problema. Este artigo pretende explicitar, baseado no pensamento crítico-reflexivo, a ação social de cunho solidário do orçamento participativo como possibilidade de responder ao processo de despolitização da esfera pública. Nesse sentido, o projeto da deliberação orçamentária pode contribuir para a sociedade mediante a ação repolitizadora na esfera pública na medida em que ele se constitui enquanto medium sócio-normativo na sociedade

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O Conselho do Orçamento Participativo de Porto Alegre, formado por um corpo de eleitos entre os participantes, tem a função de planejar, propor, fiscalizar e deliberar sobre uma fração de receitas e despesas do orçamento municipal reservado para investimentos. Partindo deste universo, o presente trabalho aborda as formas através das quais diferentes concepções de “participação” conectam-se às tomadas de posição e constituem formas de mediação. O material empírico de análise compreende a trajetória de conselheiros eleitos entre1989 e 2015 e atas das reuniões do Conselho disponíveis entre 2013 e 2015. Em primeiro lugar, foram analisadas as bases dos discursos sobre a “participação” a partir das trajetórias e modalidades de engajamento; em segundo lugar, entram em pauta as tomadas de posição e sua relação na constituição de diferentes modalidades de mediação. Os resultados apresentados indicam uma correlação entre os ideais de engajamento no Orçamento Participativo e as expectativas de acesso aos recursos disponíveis.

A proposta deste artigo é analisar o desenvolvimento dos orçamentos participativos em Maipú (Argentina) e Rio Grande (Brasil). Em ambas as experiências existe um esforço, envolvendo quadros políticos locais, moradores e organizações da sociedade civil, visando a implementação de um amplo processo de inclusão dos cidadãos nos debates sobre os investimentos do Estado. Com essa comparação pretendemos contribuir com a construção de ferramentas analíticas para tratar de casos de participação cidadã na gestão pública e suas adaptações e, a expandir o conhecimento sobre o desenvolvimento dos orçamentos participativos em nível internacional.

Este artigo discute as experiências de participação popular no município de São Paulo, notadamente a implementação do Orçamento Participativo na gestão Marta (2001-2004) e o Programa de Metas na segunda gestão Kassab (2008-2012), à luz da evolução dos conceitos de accountability e participação na teoria democrática. Argumenta-se que a experiência do Programa de Metas está alinhada a uma visão superada de accountability no setor público, indicando que o modelo de participação na Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo parece caminhar na contramão da elaboração teórica sobre o tema.

The urban environment, understood as the environment changed by man, is represented by the city as a space for coexistence of individuals, endowed with an entire infrastructure composed of public goods and services, which aim at the wellbeing of its inhabitants. When people effectively participate in decision-making interest in cities, they feel more responsible for the outcome of their decisions, providing a political maturity of the population. In both Brazil and Portugal, the Master Plan is the main instrument for planning and regulating cities and the urban environment. The difference between them may lie in the fact that Brazil is one step ahead with popular participation in urban planning and participatory budgeting, probably due to the political and socio-economic characteristics of the country, and the needs that this condition imposes on its inhabitants. Regardless of both Brazil and Portugal already make great efforts in this direction, and the question of community involvement in the decision-making process, urban planning, and participatory budgeting is already addressed and considered (although at different levels, stages, and legal formalization), there is still much to be done in this direction to ensure the effective participation of the population in the construction and evolution of cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Technologies of direct participation in democracy, such as Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget, produce symbolic, political, and economic effects whose reach cannot be assessed exclusively by the engagement of collective actors in institutional spaces of participation and decision-making. Drawing from ethnographical evidence, this article reveals how new political subjectivities arise as low-income organized groups engage with these participatory devices. These groups reclaim established protocols of expression and retool this rhetorical capital into repertoires of action useful in other arenas of mobilization, thus crafting links with the government. I problematize the repertories of participation and demonstration deployed by a group of street vendors in search of economic viability, in the aftermath of their forceful resettlement into a low-income shopping mall in the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Special attention is given to the ways jargons, idioms, and participatory languages gain traction and travel among leaders and communities mobilized for rights in the interstices of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study, from the hypothetical-deductive method, aims to analyze how governmental policies may compromise the democratic development through public policies of public participation encourage. Initially are analyzed the characteristics of the current democratic societies and the importance of non-exclusion of the individuals. After, it is verified the characteristics of the participatory municipal budget program developed by public managers and is realized a reflection on the importance of popular participation to the achievement of a development model that enables democracy. In the end the importance of a participatory democracy and the development of public policies for social inclusion is concluded.

Editorial do Dossiê "Participação, Democracia e Políticas Públicas na América Latina"