Governança x Governabilidade: os desafios do executivo municipal no estabelecimento de políticas públicas

Abstract

One of the major challenges of public management is meeting the urgent needs or problems considered relevant to society. Public governance and governance only materialize when state actors represented by the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches compact with the same ideas, processes and legal norms, with a view to meeting the interests of the collective. The general objective of this research was to investigate the challenges that the Executive Branch of Olinda faces under the conception of governance and governability in the establishment of public policies. The methodology used for this study was qualitative, and structured interviews were conducted with political actors and managers linked to the municipality of Olinda. The interviewees' discourses reveal that the financial resources for the establishment of public policies result from the articulation between political actors of legislative houses of the municipal, state and federal spheres. Also a "technically well-prepared project" is a form of fundraising. It is concluded that the challenges faced for the formulation of public policy in Olinda are of land order, economic viability of programs and public policies, of increasing the quality of public services provided to the municipal population and in the ability to understand actual situational diagnosis.