Interações sociopolíticas e o acesso às políticas públicas no município de Lavras: um estudo de caso sobre os movimentos associativos dos bairros Fonte Verde e Novo Horizonte

Abstract

The focus of public policies is today at the local level, in the processes of implementation and adaptation to multiple and decentralized realities according to Faria (2012). The recognition of the decentralization of public policies makes it possible to recognize also the interactions that bind the communities to the public power (AMANCIO, 2013). For Lavalle and Isunza (2010), decentralization encourages the strengthening of the local level, a sphere where service delivery and multiplication of instances of contact with street level bureaucracy occurs. Citizens who access public services are definitely aware of their needs and demands. Starting from this supposition, are considered important agents activators of state stock control mechanisms, once it pressure on politicians and street-level bureaucracy, the accountability state. The social control became a mechanism for development of the democratic process and an instrument to improve the virtue of public services. This study aims to explore the relations between State and society locally, starting from the experiences of community association identified in two peripheral districts of the city of Lavras-MG, being them: Fonte Verde e Novo Horizonte. These neighborhoods chosen by the concentration of low-income families where the same are territorially and politically segregated in analogous regions. Noting the multiple accesses, performers and relations involved on local level articulated around the search for improvements on the quality of public policies and access to collective rights. Such a case study was realized by empirical observations from January 2015 to February 2016, through the scientific initiation project “Micro Territorial dynamic policies and access to the public policies in the city of Lavras”. The territorial cut adopted in the study reveals similarities and distinctions between the analyzed neighborhoods as well as the forms of state permeability represented by the collective action repertories, thus enabling the sociopolitical interactions in search of improvements in quality of the public service and accesses to the collective rights. The profile mobilizing performers collective the relations that these performers establish with political performers and public equipment employees. Social demands, which have been changing over time, in that they were, conquered the trajectories mobilization and investments state distinct in urban infrastructure in neighborhoods evidenced by the presence or absence of public facilities establishing distinct precariousness among them.