Avaliação da participação da sociedade civil no choque de gestão de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The article aims at evaluating the participation of civil society on the process of formulation, monitoring and execution of public policies included on the “Plano Mineiro de Desenvolvimento Integrado (PMDI)” and detailed by the “Planos Pluranuais de Ação Governamental (PPAG)”, formulated and reviewed between 2003 and 2006. Through the discussion of documents produced by Minas Gerais’ government, namely the Secretariat for management and planning and the legislative power, as well as the literature produced on choque de gestão, we discuss the degree and forms of civil society participation on the production of public policies. The discussion is based on the contribution made by participative democracy literature (Avritzer, 2002; Teixeira, 2002,). We conclude that civil society participation was more important on the process of monitoring and execution than on the process of formulation.