The manifestations occurred in Brazil, at the end of the 80's, symbolized the interest in promoting a new meeting between State and society. The government of Lula brought new hopes for society and developed a new model of societal management in Public Administration. The objective of this paper is to analyze whether these practices developed by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (through the I Cultural Municipal Conference of Olinda, occurred in 2005), can characterize a bigger social participation in the management of the politics of national culture. We tried to understand whether these practices are being developed from the participation of both the federated beings and society for the development of a national public politics. We concluded that, although the current government possesses a different speech, not seeming to focus on economic neo-liberalism and searching to accomplish society action, is still far from promoting a full social participation. It's necessary to analyze the Brazilian democratic process carefully, since it is not easy to share power.
Social participation; State; Society