Deliberative citizenship and social management: municipal council for environment and sustainable development - cadesg of gurupi-to and social participation

Popular participation in public spaces is an extremely important issue in the country's democratic process and the consolidation of citizenship. The Municipal Councils are channels of representation in the formulation and control of public policies at all levels being linked to public management in the decision-making process. Therefore, the present work analyzes the valuation of citizen participation in the Municipal Council for Environment and Sustainable Development in the municipality of Gurupi-TO under the dimensions of Social Management to understand the functioning of CADESG from the actors' point of view. The methodology employed was the case study from the document analysis, non-participant observation, and application of a structured questionnaire using the method of Content Analysis of BARDIN (2016). The theoretical foundation discusses the conceptual framework of Social Management correlating its possibility for the exercise of deliberative power by society. Results were obtained and identified that pointed to a certain level of social management and from the perspective of deliberative citizenship glimpsed the need for improvement of the categories analyzed.