A posição das organizações da sociedade civil nas políticas públicas em Porto Alegre : movimentos hegemônicos e contra-hegemônicos

Abstract

In the past three decades in Brazil there has been a changing process on how to manage the social. Between the phenomenas contained in this process we highlight the sharing of responsibilities originated from the Federal Constitution of 1988 with regards of social rights and how it was formulated and implemented the public policy. The present PhD work aims to analyze the position of civil society organizations (CSO's) in Porto Alegre's governments in the period from 1986 to 2016, aiming to understand its performance and function in education public policy, in social assistance and health. The time delimitation happens because we believe that democratic opening movement lived in the country on the decade of 1980 and the approval of the 1988 Federal Constitution forged relevant changes in the CSO's dynamics and consequently in shaping social management which was designed in the following years. It is a qualitative study, referenced in the dialectical-critical method with gramscian approach. At the end of the research we came to the following thesis that seeks to express the main conclusions of the route: the positions of civil society organizations are heterogeneous, being that in the historical period studied, assumed positions at times condescending and conservative, now politicized and progressive. The Porto Alegre CSO's, mainly from the 1990s have been coopted by different governments, having relegated to a second plan the movements in defense of warranty and enlargement of rights, to give place to the execution and provision and minimum resources needed to mantain its services. The governments, in turn, have realized their power by directing the majority in the fulfillment of their interest explaining to the society that the services are being provided, using diferent pronouncements: citizen participation or managerial rationality. After this, the CSO's have been discharging its roll, established by law, but not its social function, of autonomy, of contestation and mainly representatives of subalterns in the privileged arena of class strugle, aiming to concretize counter-hegemonic movements through an intense strugle for hegemony, needing to be challenged to rethink its position in this dynamic.