O Distrito na Estrutura PolíticoAdministrativa Brasileira: Gestão Municipal no Distrito de Fazendinha

Abstract

The District in the Brazilian Political-Administrative Structure: Municipal Management in the District of Fazendinha, addresses the power relations and their representations present in the district scale as a municipal subdivision in the Brazilian political-administrative structure, takes as reference the relations present in the exercise of power. from Fazendinha Municipal District in the State of Amapá, located 16

kilometers from Capital Macapá. The investigation aimed to verify how the Municipality of Macapá directs actions for the accomplishment of public policies with a view to meeting the demands within the Fazendinha District, based on the power relationship developed by the District Agent. The research followed the path of the case study, within a perspective of the descriptive and explanatory method, with a qualitative approach, discussing the decentralization relations and practices of political-administrative authority. The tools applied in data collection were field research, structured and semi-structured interviews and questionnaire application, use of secondary sources, bibliographic searches in books and the Internet. In addition, the on-site mining of information with the organs and departments of Macapá City Hall. At the end of the discussion, it is understood that there is still a need to move ahead with municipal management at the district level, and to create conditions that favor decentralization as a public policy and encourage popular participation as an essential element in addressing priority demands at the district level, as well as foster the realization of a community representation that can present itself as a public entity with institutional prerogatives capable of deliberating effectively before the community's wishes, with the mayor of the Municipality of Macapá.