1ª CONFECOM, a política que supera a forma : análise do desenho institucional e das recomendações finais da conferência

Abstract

The question that instigated this study is based on the observation of the process of the 1st Conference on Communications (1st Confecom). Having been convene with a restrictive institutional design to approval of controversial proposals, in particular the interest of social movements, the conference was able to produce a high degree of consensus and the segment that had the highest proportion of approved proposals was precisely the social movements. So the question instigator of this study is to understand the context in which the joints between the actors of the segments of a conference can extrapolate its institutional design, promoting a broader democratic process that originally proposed. To fulfill this goal, we present the political context of realization of the 1st Confecom, as well as its institutional design. Furthermore, we analyze the content of the recommendations adopted at the conference and show whether and to what extent the public and societal actors influenced it according to their preferences. At the end, we compare the results with the design of the 1st Confecom and problematizes this relationship for the case in question.