Orçamento participativo em San Miguel: extensão do Movimento pela Carta Popular e da gestão governamental local

Abstract

This paper has as its axis the analysis of the experience of Participatory Budgeting (PB) in the district of San Miguel (SM), located in the northwest region of Greater Buenos Aires - GBA in the period 2006-2010, focusing on analysis of democratic theory and socio-political configuration of the territory. The overall objective of the research is to analyze the interaction between the state government and civil society organizations in the development of the PB process, with the following objectives: 1) describe the local context that gives rise to the policy of OP in the city of San Miguel, and 2) analyze the development of OP in conjunction with the sociopolitical dimension of the territory. In November 2006, legalized the PB, which grew out of the broadcast work and proposition on the part of a movement of social organizations and institutions in the region, called Movimiento por la Carta Popular. Performed by the pressure for movement and political situation and the city council (concejo deliberante) unanimously approved the OP in the city of San Miguel, presented here as a proposal for the administration in which residents participate in deciding the fate of the resources of municipal . From the existence of the OP in the city, there were changes in territory, in relation to participation and access to social goods and services. PB phenomenon was analyzed from the theoretical to Brazilian and Argentinean researchers, through qualitative analysis of data from primary and secondary sources and reflections acquired by the researcher in their active participation in the development of PB in San Miguel.