Vol. 75 No. a (2024): Social participation - lessons from the past to think about the future

The article examines four widely circulated and influential general arguments that offer typical answers to the question: What are citizens expected to control in a democracy? The answers depend on how the relationship between democracy, representation, participation, and control is...

Brazil has experienced strong democratic oscillations that have affected the organization of forms of social participation in the country. The Brazilian democratization process ushered in a period of intense participation, reinforced by the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution, but this...

Participation in the 2024-2027 Multiannual Plan has reopened the possibility for civil society to contribute to the government planning. The voting process was done via Participatory Brazil digital platform, while face-to-face mobilization took place through 27 state plenary sessions and the...

One of the challenges of formulating and consolidating digital participation policies lies in the arrangements and processes for developing and maintaining digital tools. The arrangements between stakeholders in multisectoral collaboration processes, called Open Source and Public Sector...

The paper discusses the process of openness of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil (Itamaraty) to social interaction since the national re-democratization and analyzes its involvement in the I National Conference on Migration and Refuge (COMIGRAR), in 2014. At the event, diplomats...

The Brazilian National School Feeding Programme
(PNAE) combines the family farming and school feeding themes. The Programme had a participatory institutional framework organized as a network that was modified by Decree No. 9,759/2019, which abolished collegiate bodies from the federal...

The present work aims to analyze the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Social Participation System enforced by Executive Order no. 11,407/2023 within the scope of the Ministry of Culture (MinC). This is an exploratory study based on documental analysis and an interview,...