Institutionalization and weakening of the dynamics of social participation in the scope of the Política Nacional de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the interlocutions between agents located in different sides of the
supposed “frontier” State and civil society in the process of construction and implementation of
the Política Nacional de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (PNATER). It can be observed
that from 2003 onwards, institutionalized spaces of social participation were consolidated and
expanded, which led to a continuous process of public debate, involving state and non-state
actors, surrounding this public policies. In this way, historical patterns of state and civil society
interaction were experimented and reinterpreted, as well as communication and negotiation
routines among these agents. However, this democratic institutionality and dynamics of social
participation have been threatened by the government that was instituted from the process
of impeachment of the president-elect Dilma Roussef, which has motivated the resistance by
agents who participated in this process.