Between the legal and real: the authority of community and government in developing the participatory budget in Araraquara (São Paulo, Brazil)

Authors

  • Elielson Carneiro da Silva Pesquisador financiado pela FAPESP – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. Doutorando em Ciência Política. UNICAMP – Universidade Estadual de Campinas. UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista - Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia. Araraquara – SP – Brasil. 14800-901

Keywords:

Participatory Budgeting, Delegation of Authority, vertical mechanisms of the Authority, horizontal mechanisms of the Authority,

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the mechanisms of delegation of authority vertical and horizontal in Participatory Budgeting in Araraquara (Brazil). For this, we investigated: 1) formal and legal aspects by the documental analysis of the "Bylaws" and the Law that created the participatory budget, 2) empirical aspects, through ethnographic research participant in the plenary, to verify and the extent to which the formal aspects are effective in practice.

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