Descentralização e capital social: impasses e desafios de projetos estratégicos

Abstract

The goal of this work is to analyze the extent to which government intervention projects that are focused on urban planning and local management potentiate the construction of social capital and lead to decentralization, based on the study on the implementation of Urban Development and Water Resources Management Program of the State of Ceará (PROURB) in the city of Iguatu, Ceará. The hypothesis developed here is that the project effectiveness is associated with the local power administration and experiences of the population’s organization and social participation. Both decentralization and the increase in social capital depend on the coupling of these factors.