AÇÃO COMUNICATIVA E PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR NA FORMAÇÃO E APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS DE INTERESSES SOCIAIS: uma proposta para a efetividade da participação popular, a partir da atuação do Ministério Público

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the possibility of institutions witch have responsibility to defend social interests to exercise a mediating role between the political system and civil society in the cycle of formation or improvement of public policies. As an institution of this nature, the Prosecutor's Office will be highlighted in the research from a resolutive erspective of its attributions, in order to investigate whether it is possible to act as a promoter and coordinator of the public sphere in arenas constituted by the institution itself or by others that have, in their functions, the task of defending social interests. The assumption of this work is based on the overcoming of the consciousness paradigm by the language paradigm and it has the communicative action like the tool to reach satisfactory levels of effectiveness of popular participation. The theoretical reference of the work is the Jürgen Habermas’ perception about deliberative democracy, especially based on the theory of communicative action. The research will be part bibliographical, which will be added to a field research to evaluate cuts of some projects of the Prosecutor's Office of Maranhão. First of all, aspects of the constitution of the contemporary and intersubjective public sphere will be approached in which actors that make up a material political representation of society and its interest groups interact between themselves, giving importance to the role of local associativism, new social movements and their networks inside of the process of formation and improvement of public policies of social interests. The text will deal with the phenomenon of popular participation in the face of philosophical paradigms and emphasize the necessary attention with the modalities of speech acts that hatch in the public sphere, so that the results of communicative action are not misrepresented, in order to ensure that collective deliberations in the public spaces of discussion obey the criteria of a democratic proceduralism that intend itself adequated according the Habermas' theory. Establishing the bases for the affirmation of deliberative democracy based on communicative action, reasons will be exposed to believe that the Prosecutor's Office, as an institution dedicated to defending social interests and holding horizontal accountability power, can exercise an important role in mediation between interests of civil society and the administrative system, including the creation of a forum within its institutional functions where the bases of communicative action can be guaranteed and coordinated by its members. The text will also address a way of assessing the effectiveness of the influence and normativity of popular participation before the political system in the cycle of public policy formation. An ideal conformation of the relationship between society and the system will be suggested, so that to guarantee administrative responsiveness between what the former wishes and what the latter offers as social welfare. Some stabilization factors of this ideal conformation will be suggested, which can be activated by the Prosecutor’s Office service. In this sense, the work will make a content analysis in two project cutbacks supported by the Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Maranhão to demonstrate how these stabilizing factors should be promoted and what their limits are. This analysis will be carried out from the data collection of the Prosecutor's Office with the purpose of analyzing the processes in which it will be verified if the means used by the Institution have achieved the goals set forth in the constitution of the cutbacks of the respective projects. The bibliographical research on the theoretical reference of the work and the documentary analysis of data collected at the Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Maranhão will be used as techniques.