Limites da capacidade deliberativa no Conselho Municipal de Assistência Social de Salvador

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to analyze the deliberative capacity of the Municipal Council of Social Assistance of the city of Salvador (CMASS) during the management of Civil Society in the 2016/2018 biennium. The CMASS was established by Municipal Law 5096/96 of January 8, 1996, as a collegiate deliberation body, permanent in the decentralized and participatory system of Social Assistance, being responsible for the coordination of the Municipal Social Assistance Policy. The analysis carried out permeates discussions about the relations between the State and Civil Society, the trajectory of the Social Assistance policy, the role of public policy management councils, the organization of the deliberative process and the social relations that permeate the daily life of CMASS. We identified that although the institutional design presents the necessary conditions for the democratic participation of the counselors and the organization of the deliberative process occurs in accordance with the Rules, documentary analysis, interviews and participant observation demonstrated that the operationalization of normative, deliberative and Control of the Policy by CMASS is marked by numerous difficulties, which are independent of the actions of the councilors, most of them due to the lack of political will of the municipal government to abide by the deliberations of the CMASS meetings. Which leads us to conclude that the deliberative capacity of the studied Council is limited by the action of the municipal government that plays a preponderant role for the deliberative capacity of civil society and social control to be realized.