Desenvolvimento e terceiro setor: possibilidades globais e escolhas locais

Abstract

The scaling perspective of the global relevance and the local insertion of the Third Sector currently propose two questions: first, about the nature of the entanglement that connects these levels; and the other, about the contribution of the Third Sector local action for the development of public interest, as a global perception. To handle these arguments we discuss in this paper the Third Sector as a contemporary social field in which, formal and informal private initiatives of public interest, develop a special way of management that allows a normative approach in terms of the concept of public space endowed with a set of attributes, which highlights the importance of values. We point out the contributions of researchers, that identify the main challenges and alternatives of this field.