Partidos políticos e políticas públicas para a habitação no Município de Santo Ângelo/RS (2005-2016)

Abstract

The present study analyzes the relationships established between partisan ideology and public housing policies, having as geographic-temporal clipping the actions undertaken in the municipal public administration of Santo Angelo, RS, in the period comprised between the years 2005 and 2016. The objective was to typify the policies implemented and to perform analyses according to the ideological-partisan identification of the manager/prefect. To accomplish this study, the actions implemented in the three mandates that comprise the delimited period were considered. The problem of this study was to answer the following question: Do the policies promoted in each management agree with the party ideologies which the municipal manager/mayor is adept at from his partisan affiliation? To respond to the research problem, theoretical foundations were used with emphasis on Giovanni Sartori (1982) and Norberto Bobbio (1995), which deal with the party ideologies and forms of governments, as well as in Theodore J. Lowi, which was referenced to use its approach in the typification of housing policies at the local level. As regards the methodology, the empiricalanalytical method was employed. The information was collected in management reports, multiannual plans, budget guidelines law, budget laws and archives of the local Municipal Housing Secretariat. According to the data analyzed, it was observed the predominance of investments in popular housing in the government of PDT, left party. The PP demonstrated through the data a performance in urban allotment and significantly intervened by means of the Material Bank program; allied to his right ideology, it can be said that he opted for little state intervention, considering a budget execution well below the planned resources. In this sense, as a response to the research problem, it was identified that the implementations in the local policy were to meet the partisan ideologies of the manager/prefect of each mandate.