Capital social e a participação dos usuários do SUAS no Rio Grande do Sul: um estudo de política pública.

The present study is based on theory of social capital and its impact related to the participation aspects of the public policy, in Rio Grande do Sul state, especially in the Caxias do Sul and Novo Hamburgo cities. In this way, we intend to demonstrate comparatively the relationship between the accumulation of social capital and the quality of participation in the public policy. Regarding the methodological delimitation, we used a survey research and 382 questionnaires were directly applied to Unified System of Social Assistance' users. In this sense, it was possible to affirm our hypothesis, that there is a positive relationship between social capital and the quality of participation in the public policy, thus, us to affirm that in so far as the stock of social capital grows, also occurs the growth of participation in the public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]