Territorial Management and Development: advances and challenges of the processes of political decentralization in Brazil

Abstract

To an adequately contribution about territorial management and development, it is not enough to supply the regions with sub national structures of development management. Firstly, it is necessary to construct the region, trough the institutionalization of a rational agreement about what a regionalization is more adequately. Because it is an historical process, it is not possible to do it trough governmental decree. Secondly, is necessary a more extensive dialog between govern and regional society. That is the challenge, being also recurring a physiologist and clientelist practice, undermining democratic exercise of citizenship. At the same time, sectors of society also has corporatism and regional, regional parochialism, without an integrated vision of region. Therefore, the porpoise is to investigate the relation between decentralization, under national structures of development management, state capacities and spatial scales of public action, analyzing their interferences within development process. The reference to do this research is the decentralization experience of Santa Catarina state-BR.