Capacidades estatais para a promoção de processos participativos: Atributos do aparato burocrático ou condições temporárias para a ação?

Abstract

In proposing research on state capacities for the promotion of social participation, the study contributes with understanding about the organizational resources necessary for participatory public management, as well as investigating their form of mobilization.The investigative focus was on the state operation for the organization of national conferences. Thus, it revealed the importance of institutional, political and administrative capacities, enabling the identification of technical capacities that are linked to the design and development of participatory processes. The paper proposes the understanding that state capabilities are not necessarily attributes that can be installed in a structure, but rather conditions for action, organizational resources that can be mobilized.Thus, it allowed to review the understanding of capacities as attributes of a structure that can be generated or installed.With the research undertaken, it seems more reasonable to speak of state capabilities as resources that can be mobilized depending on needs.