Orçamento público e participação popular: uma análise das vantagens do orçamento participativo para a administração pública

Abstract

The public budget is a key instrument of public finance management. Participatory democracy is a latent and irreversible trend of contemporary public administration. Performing the fusion of these two assumptions, the Participatory Budget, which is a public budget having in it's foundation the popular participation. This paper aims to conduct a detailed study that delimit what are the advantages to be measured and achieved by the public authorities from the city with implementation of this management tool. Based on an analysis of the public budget under a management perspective, adding to an analysis of participatory democracy and its impact on public administration, it's possible to understand what is a participatory budget and what is its essence. With this knowledge, it enters on an analysis of the publications of various authors, as well as the experiences of the cities of Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza, about the consequences of implementing a Participatory Budget (PB) in the city. Thus, it concludes what are the advantages of PB for public administration.