Abstract
This article analyzed the São Paulo Municipal Advisory Board, an innovative channel of communication between civil society and the local government’s executive branch. This exploratory research is based on an intrinsic case study, aiming to understand the operation of this advisory board and how it relates to other participatory instances in Brazil. The study adopted semi-structured interviews with members of the advisory board and representatives of the local government, participant observation of meetings of the management’s board, and analysis of official documents. Data were analyzed based on the theory of deliberative democracy and studies on participatory bodies. The results indicate that the São Paulo Municipal Advisory Board is partially aligned with the deliberative democracy, and strongly connected to the federal and state-level Economic and Social Development Advisory Boards. Due to the specificities of these instances, we suggest the creation of a new category in the literature on institutional participation - “Governmental Advisory Board.”
Keywords:
public administration; deliberative democracy; participatory institutions; councils; social participation
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Source: Elaborated by the authors. *Municipality respondents were not necessarily working with the CCSP at the time of the interview, but they were chosen because they had worked within the CCSP.
Source: Elaborated by the authors based on data shared by the interviewees.
Source: Elaborated by the authors, based on the interviews.
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