O papel do "terceiro setor" nos governos FHC (1995-2002)

Abstract

After a context of crises in the 90s, after the Welfare State and the globalization, it will be noted in a worldwide level the changes related to the State and the redefinition of its role. Therefore, the new deal to the social matter comes from the context of the productive reorganization and from the neoliberal movement conceived in Brazil during the 90s. This period also would also highlight the appearance of a new division, the “third”. The importance of analyzing the theme of the “third sector” comes, not only from its growth and expansion in several countries in the world, but also, from the way governments and companies have used the term in their practices, - if it was – an alternative truly effective to solve the social problems. Composed from a cast of entities that gather themselves under this legend and would not be neither Government nor classic economy organizations, everything points to a contrast to the civilian society. In this context of rearrangement of the capital and the State’s counter reform, the “third sector” becomes functional to the neoliberal project. Accordingly, it is mandatory to comprehend this phenomenon in Brazil, an analysis from Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995 – 2002), which were accountable for the spread of the term and its practices. In a reform movement, the values of the New Public Administration will be put into effect under the “Ministério da Administração Federal e Reforma do Estado” (MARE). Among the main changes, we have: the creation of the principle of efficiency (EC nº 19/98), from the Social Organizations (OS) and from the Civilian Society Organizations and Public Interest (OSCIP). Under the pitch of a modernizing ideology, we’ll see a speech which intends to convince ourselves that these “partnerships” would be essential to surpass the delay of our State, characterized by the bureaucracy, corruption, patrimonialism and physiology existent. However, what this speech tries to hide is that, in fact, the modernization means one alignment to the great capital’s ideology, operating a dismantle in all those rights attained in the Constitution of 1988. Therefore, the centrality of a “third sector” in the analysis.