ONGs e Reforma do Estado no Brasil : Ressignificação da Cidadania ou Esvaziamento Político dos Movimentos Sociais?

Abstract

This research has as its theme Non-Governmental Organizations and their emergence as agents of civil society organizations in the reform of the Brazilian state, especially from the mid-1990s, during the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Assume that the Brazilian State is not a finished product but, rather, has always been in recasting, is to serve the interests of groups in power - in democratic periods (or almost) and in periods of exception - or search for greater efficiency and impersonality in weberian molds. However, the wider reform in recent decades by the protagonists MARS - Ministry of Federal Administration and Reform of State - for the first government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995/1998) has brought a new element within the project of decentralization and reduction of State: the option of partnership with Civil Society, especially in the social area. The state acting as donor or public policy-makers and NGOs as providers of on-site actions to address specific situations and specific, that is one of the main features of the NGO-State. The action of these entities, many of which related to religious groups, political or business, coincided with the decline of traditional activities of social movements, has noticed this phenomenon since the end of the 1980s and that, according to some analysts, is the result the actual performance of the NGOs To better understand the relationship between NGOs and the State, there was a need for a review of regulations governing the granting of state subsidies in the three levels of government - federal, state and municipal levels - without losing sight of how their own bodies and Society calendar with a whole, see the possibility of a regulatory framework more efficient in that area.