The participation of the legislative power in municipal public planning: analyzing proposals for parliamentary amendments to the budget laws in Curitiba

Abstract

Guided by the goal to analyze the amount and the characteristics of amendments converted into law and by the discussion about the parliamentarians’ detachment from the legislative functions on budget matters, this article approach Legislative Power’s participation on public planning under social legitimation perspective in representative democracies. Theoretical reference that supports it remits to the process of public planning and to the budget politics focusing on parliamentary amendments. Its methodological path emphasizes an applied research outlined as a case study with descriptive approach. The method employed is descriptive statistic. The results point that i) technical knowledge deficit, information asymmetry and low quality transparency on budget’s proposals perpetuates Executive Power’s hegemony and ii) there was no modifications on that structure by the adoption of impositive amendments to the annual budget.

Keywords:
Urban Planning; Budget; Legislative Power; Parliament’s Amendment