Social participation and culture plans: three experiences and their challenges

Abstract

This text is the result of a research funded by the National Research
Council – CNPq with the objective of analyzing the social participation
in the construction of public policies of culture, more specifically the
process of virtual consultation for the review of goals of the National
Culture Plan, the process of constructing the State Plan of Culture
of Minas Gerais and the Municipal Plan of Culture of Belo Horizonte.
Through analysis of data extracted from participation platforms,
institutional reports and interviews, the research found the importance
of the mechanisms of social participation originated in the Brazilian
Federal constitution of 1988, as well as the needs of its improvement in
the field of cultural policies in Brazil.