Ana Carolina Paiva de Carvalho

Public Policy Councils and Organizational Networks Ana Carolina Paiva de Carvalho

Public policy councils are participatory institutions resulting from the 1988 Constitution, whose role involves public control over government action and they share with the State, to a certain extent, part of the responsibility for public policies. These structures are administratively linked to state agencies and their administrative-financial apparatus is dependent on these agencies. This book seeks to understand and analyze the management structure of the councils linked to the State Secretariat for Human Rights, Social Participation and Citizenship (SEDPAC) from a network management perspective. The results signal the complexity of the network of councils linked to SEDPAC - formed by multiple actors that depend on each other, have different resources and perceptions, and are guided by rules - and subsidize the strategies established to manage this network.