Gastos com o esporte na gestão 2012-2015 do governo do Pará: quando a prioridade não foi a garantia do direito social

Abstract

This article aims to analyze public funding for sport in the state of Pará during the administration of the 2012-2015 with regardto investments targeted to the dimensions of sport, in order to identify the priorities of the implemented policies. To this end, documentary and bibliographic research was developed. Data collection conducted in official administration documents. For the analysis of the data, the technique proposed by Boschetti (2009) was used, and developed according to the expenditure targeting indicator. The results reveal that there is a centrality of financing and expenditure with the dimension of high-performance sport, with a focus on the holding of major sporting events and their infrastructure, with emphasis on the reform of the Olympic stadium, the venue of major sporting events, which shows the priority with a sporting dimension that does not respond to the possibility of universal access to the majority of the population.