Desenho institucional e promoção da justiça em espaços participativos: Implicações em um estudo de caso

Abstract

Among the studies on the Participatory Budgeting (PB) impacts, a line of research has shown its redistributive potential, comprehending it as the consolidation of equality and the difference principle, framework elements of the conception of justice, by John Rawls. Therefore, this article aimes to verify if this potential was achieved in the PB experience of the city of Biguaçu in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The study proves through cross tabulation of the per capita investiment and the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) per region, that, in part, the experience promoted justice. However, this promotion was limited by the changes in the institutional design of the experience, which caused a direct impact on the equality reduction.