O processo participativo dos conselhos de previdência social : entre o consultivo e o deliberativo

Abstract

This monograph intends to analyze the interconnection between the National Social Security Council (CNPS) and the local Councils of Social Security (CPS), defined as participatory institutions of a democratic government. It aims to assess the existence of an integrated system of participation and deliberation, investigating the linkage of the National Council,deliberative character, with local Councils, consultative character. The investigation of the joint local Council with the CNPS was conducted through of qualitative analysis of these council's documents available on the World Wide Web, the Social Security's website. The theoretical framework is participatory democratic theory, structured concepts like participatory proceduralism, systems deliberative and participatory institutions. In order to understand regarding the scope and content of the proposals and decisions had processed in two councils and evaluate the role traditionally played by social participation, recovers the historical evolution of the Brazilian Social Security, focusing on the achievements of rights social inherent in this area of public policy and establishing the role of councils in the consolidation of these rights. The findings indicate an underused structure of CNPS and CPS existing for the establishment of an effective "integrated system of participation and deliberation."