A PARTICIPAÇÃO SOCIAL COMO ELEMENTO DE GOVERNANÇA PÚBLICA E FATOR RELEVANTE NO DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL

Abstract

In a Democratic State, social participation is highlighted and claimed by society as a form of co-management, social control of the public policies and induction of the economic development, especially after the institutionalization of participative channels as the edition of the Federal Constitution of 1988. The main goal of the present assignment is to analyze the contribution of the society’s participation as an element of public governance for the local economic development. Such research is of applied nature, with quantitative approach, having as methodological procedures the literature review about both themes- economic development and social participation- the construction of the art state and the application of statistical techniques using data from cities from Minas and regions from the State of Minas Gerais, extracted from the Local Economic Development Index – LEDI from Sebrae-MG, that consolidates official data published in the years of 2018 and 2019. The dimension- Governance for Development, and its sub dimension- Participation and Social Control from the LEDI, which interest to the study, were analyzed. As result, a significant relation between the dimension Governance for Development for the economic development of the cities from Minas was identified; however, the same hasn’t occurred when the sub dimension Participation and Social Control was considered. Yet, the sub dimension referred to is significant in the composition of the dimension Governance for Development, which denotes its indirect contribution for the enhancement of the General Municipal LEDI, being a direction for public managers to seek ways to participate in the population of government decisions and in the promotion of public policies for economic, social and sustainable development.