O desenvolvimento das políticas públicas no Brasil : o Conselho Nacional de Juventude como espaço de participação da sociedade civil

Abstract

The central theme of this work is the process of participatory democracy in Brazil. The object of analysis of this process is the collective learning experience derived from the five years of existence of the National Youth Council (Conjuve). A body of the National Youth Secretariat, this council is the institutional expression of the national youth policy implemented by the Lula government. Conjuve’s lifetime – short if compared to the ones of other venues of participatory democracy in Brazil – has enabled us to elaborate an analysis that covers from the initial difficulties to the achievements and progress, especially between the council’s first two mandates. Thus, we were able to measure the importance that this type of experience may have in the context of social control as its problems are overcome in the process of building and consolidating the Conjuve.