Orçamento participativo: o papel da população de São Luís diante do orçamento público

Abstract

The Participatory budgeting is the medium that the government, through participatory democracy, enables citizens to decide and influence public budgets through community participation procedures, this usually interferes with Investment budgets of municipal prefectures. In this scenario, it is essential that there is a reflection on the influence of the ludovicense population in the public budget of the municipality in São Luís do Maranhão. The present study aims to clarify the process of implementation of the participatory budget in the municipality in São Luís and it is contribution in the public budget procedure of São Luís. For this purpose to be achieved, the research presents the theoretical Survey on public administration, participatory democracy, public budget and participatory budgeting itself. The methodology was based on bibliographic research, descriptive and exploratory typology, in addition to data collection by applying a questionnaire to the population and interviews with representatives of the municipal participatory budgeting process, aiming to verify the knowledge and influence of the population in the process described. The results achieved by the research are exposed in the analysis, qualitative and quantitative. Therefore, the research shows that the implementation of the participatory budgeting model in São Luís is important for better transparency of the public sphere for society, considering that through it the citizen influences and decides on the Public Budget Municipal.