The relationship between government and society in the policy management of sports and leisure in Pernambuco State Government – 1999-2001: analysing the “Old People in Movement” project

Abstract

The present study was developed within the masters degree area in Political Sciences; the aim of the work is the analysis of the State-society relationship in the process of formulation, implementation and management of sports and leisure policies in Pernambuco State Government, from the period of 1999 to 2001. It tackles the society’s participation in the decisory processes of introduction, implementation and management of sport and leisure policies, through the consideration that the adoption of the participative democracy mechanisms in the management of policies is constituted of innovative elements and contributes to the redefinition of the State-society relationship. However, the conclusions of the study pointed out a distance between the Government’s participative proposal and what actually ocurred in the level of the concrete practice of the “Old People in Movement” project.