Or amento Participativo de Belo Horizonte: maior participa o e menos clientelismo político? (parte I)

Participatory Budgeting of Belo Horizonte (BH-OP) as a tool of public administration to the planning and execution of part of the municipal budget is configured as an innovation of contemporary democracy. Addressing the op from that perspective, this paper proposes a debate around the implementation of the OP-BH polymorphic ambience of a public deliberation on the induction of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its impact on share gains policy of the local population. The focus of this analysis rests on an innovative new tool available to the OP-BH: the operationalization of the Digital Participatory Budget (OP-Digital). E-democracy is therefore the strategy "right" for the current time of OP-BH, reducing political patronage? What is the synergy between the exercise of democratic practice, the use of electronic media and participatory process to strengthen the quality of democracy in that it increases the interaction between the citizen and the executive branch? With use of secondary data and interviews with municipal managers and the population of the city of Belo Horizonte, anchored by a literature review. The prospect is that this work will contribute to better defining the concept of political participation and the relationship between the executive and local civil society. The findings indicate a qualitative and quantitative expansion of popular participation in decision-making budget and an important contribution to the model of political communication, along the lines of a "digital democracy", in which the process of voicing the concerns of civil society and the mechanisms social control are expanded significantly. Still indicates the importance of the bureaucratic apparatus to establish feedback to the people, effecting the interactive process maximized by these digital tools