UFRN participation in the Councils Municipal Managers of Social Policies
Citizenship. Management Councils. Deliberative Democracy. Popular participation. Representation of UFRN.
This paper discusses the UFRN participation in the Councils Municipal Managers of Social Policies through a case study of its representation in the Municipal Board of Education in Natal / RN, as the democratic participatory system assumption adopted by the Federal Constitution of 1988. The descriptive search, as a transversal character, with data collection gathered in the Council and by semi-structured interviews with representatives of the UFRN Education Center, as well with the effective members of CME, will have a qualitative approach to analyze the obtained content. Therefore, we start understanding that throughout history democracy has become the political system best suited to the social organization, protection of individual rights and freedoms and that popular sovereignty has established itself as the foundation for its legitimacy. In this respect, social participation is presented as one of the most important tools of democracy and true expression of popular sovereignty. Therefore, it opens up space for research of democratic aspects involved in the representation of UFRN close to the Councils, providing opportunities to check its role in this context, the contribution of possibilities to the country's democratization process. The text of the 1988 Constitution founded participatory democracy in Brazil, ensuring that "all power emanates from the people and by the people it will be exercised" what established the exercise of universal, direct and secret vote, as the basis of popular sovereignty as well as it allowed the exercise of citizenship through the plebiscite, the referendum and popular initiative laws. The emergence of social policies management councils reveals the strength of that citizen participation in the intervention and the formulation of public policies, in order to increase their efficiency through social control. Therefore, this study focuses on deliberative democratic theories to analyze how they can contribute to the improvement of management councils, as well as the role of the Academy in this regard. The analysis will start from the documentary research in CME and through the remarks of the characteristics of the participation of representatives of the University Board, in order to make recommendations to improve this participation, given the importance it represents.