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Social capital and Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) in Rio Grande do Sul State

Abstract:

The present study is based on Putnam’s theory of social capital and its impact related to the participation aspect in the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) in Rio Grande do Sul State, especially in the cities of Caxias do Sul and Novo Hamburgo. In this way, we intend to demonstrate comparatively the relationship between the accumulation of social capital and the quality of participation in the SUAS. Regarding the methodological delimitation, we used a Survey research and 382 questionnaires were directly applied to SUAS users. In this sense, it was possible to affirm our hypothesis, that there is a positive relationship between social capital and the quality of participation in the public policy, thus, us to affirm that in so far as the stock of social capital grows, also occurs the growth of participation in the SUAS.

Keywords:
social capital; public policy; SUAS; participation; Rio Grande do Sul

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