O papel da Prefeitura-Bairro na descentralização das políticas públicas: o caso da Prefeitura Bairro de Cajazeiras no Município de Salvador

Abstract

This paper has as its theme the role of the City Hall as an instrument of decentralization and deconcentrating of public policies. The object of study is the concrete case of Cajazeiras City Hall, located in Salvador, Bahia. What this thesis has in mind is that decentralization has repercussions in all areas of the municipal government. It is not limited to adding new structures to the political-administrative system, but moves with the old ones, especially those that remained at the center of municipal institutions. No doubt they will continue to perform some of their traditional functions, but they will have to be rethought to fit the new situation. What is the role of the City Hall in the decentralization of public policies? Every public organization has to be at the service of substantive propositions, moral and political goals that express the common interests of the community that sustains it. City Halls were born because there was a mismatch between formal order and substantive purpose. Hypothetically and deductively the thesis aims to show that the City Halls were created with the purpose of helping to put these purposes back on the agenda, rescuing the role of the public power, which has been continually discredited and emptied in recent years.