A governança democrática das políticas culturais em João Pessoa: análise do processo de reativação do seu Conselho Municipal de Políticas Culturais

Abstract

Reflecting a growth process on participation and social control, the Public Policy Councils are an important step in the preparation and execution of public policies in Brazil. Its constitution, formed by members of both the government as representatives of civil society, promotes an interaction space, debate and bringing between the main actors involved, thus promoting an environment prone to maturity of participatory and democratic management as well as mitigate the effects of misconduct and patrimonialism in the Brazilian public management. Specifically in the field of cultural policies, we have seen how the very institutions of the councils adapted to the political situation of the moment. If today are voicing channels of social demands, in the past they ever have come to function as censorship mechanisms and party promotion, with only members of an intellectual elite acclaimed by regimes. Even despite its significant contribution to democratic governance consolidation of cultural policies, were not found in academic literature references to the Conselho Municipal de Política Cultural de João Pessoa, CMPC­JP, gap against which we intend to contribute through this work. This article, in turn, is part of research carried out within the Observatório de Políticas Culturais da UFPB on the social control of cultural policies in João Pessoa city and analyzes the reactivation process of the CMPC­JP, inactive for a year and a half and had the cultural movements João Pessoa city of the protagonists of this process of resumption of dialogue space with the local government.