MANAGEMENT OF THE SINGLE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE LIGHT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND THE INSTITUTIONAL THEORY: AN ANALYSIS IN THE MATO GRANDE / RN TERRITORY
Management of the Single Social Assistance System. Territory of Mato Grande / RN. Intergovernmental relations. Institutionalismo.
The thesis assumes the objective of understanding the operation of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) based on empirical experiences of secretariats and councils of municipalities of the Territory of Mato Grande / RN and, as a theoretical reference, the constructs intergovernmental relations and institutionalism . The management of the Unified Social Assistance System is a contemporary event considering that its institutionalization took place in 2005. The management of the System is addressed here both by the way of social assistance policy and by the way in which relations between government and civil society are established from of the new institutional model of civil society participation introduced by the Federal Constitution of 1988. For this, the present incorporates analytical categories of the Pentagon model of Public Policies of Lascounes and Le Galès (2012), namely, actors, institutions, processes, representations and results. This is a multiple case study that addresses the management of SUAS from twelve units of analysis - seven municipal secretariats and five municipal councils in the Territory of Mato Grande / RN. The data collection was performed through a semistructure interview and the data were transcribed and assembled in a textual corpus. They are being processed with the support of the free software IRAMUTEQ (Interface for Multidimensional Analyzes of Textes et de Questionnaires) based on lexical analysis and content of Bardin (2011).