Publisher's Synopsis
This book was designed to serve as bridges between the state and society, but in Brazil, they never moved beyond paper. Amid a sea of legal provisions and political intentions, institutional silence prevailed, turning the promise of democratic oversight into a bureaucratic specter devoid of substance. This book delves into the very core of that silence, probing its causes and unveiling its consequences. Through an interdisciplinary approach grounded in the theories of Jürgen Habermas and Robert Dahl, it charts a path between law and political science, showing that the failure of Fiscal Management Councils is not merely technical-it is also profoundly social and communicative. The reader is invited to confront a pressing question: to what extent can democratic participation become reality, or will it remain, as so often in Brazilian history, a distant ideal, undone by its own complexity?
