Governance and Participation in Brazil: the impact of Federal Decree 9,759/2019 on urban policies

Abstract

Collegiate bodies and councils are a way for public management to democratize the elaboration of its policies, making them more representative of segments of the population. A bibliographic review will be carried out on the themes of governance, Brazilian federalism and participation. A review of the Brazilian urban legislation pertinent to these concepts will also be made. This article is structured in four sections. The first deals with the theoretical framework on the subject of governance, conceptually, and its approach in the Brazilian context. The second section, a normative framework after the Federal Constitution, which highlights the outline of governance in relation to social participation. The third section, on the federal decree under analysis and in the fourth section, the impact of that decree on Brazilian urban policies. Therefore, the proposed debate is to what extent the dismantling of instances of popular participation, in the federal government's management from 2019 to 2022, through the publication of Decree No. 9,759 in 2019, affected Brazilian urban public policies.

Keywords: Governance, social participation, Brazilian urban policies, Federal Decree 9759/2019.