Política pública de governo do programa de esporte e lazer da cidade (PELC): desafios e contradições da gestão participativa - 2011 a 2016

Abstract

This dissertation compiles the set of studies carried out at the Universidade Católica do Salvador, in the Master in Social Policies and Citizenship, in the Research Line - Universal Social Policies, Institutionalization and Control. The objective of this study is the development of participatory management of the City Sport and Leisure Program (PELC), as a public social policy of government considering an analysis of the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016 Guidelines. It challenges the challenges and contradictions which are identified in the proposal of the Guidelines that deal with participatory management of the City Sport and Leisure Program (PELC), as a social policy. It answers a specific scientific question that concerns the foundations of the PELC, according to the official documents, to identify the limits in its management implementation. The sources were the official documents of the PELC Guidelines in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016 of the Ministry of Sports. As for the research method, the document content analysis was performed. In the analysis, the foundations for established social relations - which guide the management and participation of those involved with the PELC - were highlighted. The data were described descriptively through tables. The discussion of the analyzed data allowed us to present contradictions that exist in what is written in the documents. To analyze the determinations and to explain the contradictions and limits we use the theory that explains what public policies are and how the relations are established in a society divided in social classes as is the case of Brazil. We conclude that, despite the announcement of a democratic, participative and universalizing program to raise the sports cultural pattern of the population, there are structural limits, contradictions and that make many initiatives of participation and expansion unfeasible as a social policy. This stems from these policies being determined by the neoliberal economic organization that favors genuinely democratic and universal welfare, focal, compensatory and non-political policies.