Presents the preliminary results of the research project "Youth, schooling and local power" which examines public initiatives developed by municipal governments in 74 municipalities pertaining to metropolitan regions in Brazil (Southeast, South, Central West and Northeast) in the period between 2001 and 2004. The principal actions are investigated taking as analytic axes the set of perceptions on youth which anchor the initiatives and the forms which are proposed by the public power for interaction with this segment of the population.
youth; public policy; local power
