Representação política e participação social no diálogo entre sociedade e estado na perspectiva da sociedade civil: um estudo do Conselho Municipal de Meio Ambiente da cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The study analyzes the main difficulties encountered by representatives of civil society regarding the deliberation, based on an empirical study of the Municipal Council of the Environment of Rio de Janeiro (CONSEMAC). The public policy management councils are spaces for interaction between civil society and the State and are fiscally, advisory and or deliberative. The initial assumption of the research was that the main difficulties encountered by representatives of civil society regarding the deliberation in CONSEMAC are related to the tension between the performance of non-state actors and representatives of the State. However, the research findings point to a situation that sustains partially this hypothesis. According to the data collected, the deliberation in the Council studied does not always occur in an environment of tension, evidencing a situation of cooperation and mutual work among all the counselors. From the point of view of the non-state actors, the greater tension seems to occur in the route of social demands presented for their effectiveness as public policies, which implies in other issues such as power and technical knowledge of both sides. The research concludes that, in general, councils can be characterized as spaces of interaction between the State and civil society and that their representatives contribute significantly to the debate and referral of important demands brought by society, aimed at public policies.