Ciclo político e orçamento público: análise comparativa do perfil de alocação orçamentária dos governos do PSDB e MDB em Alagoas(2007-2022).

Abstract

His study was dedicated to investigate the influence ofthepoliticalcycleintheprocessofthe public budgets’ elaboration in the government of the state of Alagoas, from the analyses of the budget profile under the management of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira - PSDB, during the years of 2007 to 2014, and the Movimento Democrático Brasileiro - MDB, during the years of 2015 to 2022. In this regard, the budgets were classified according to your respective roles, in minimum, social or economic, taking into consideration the works of the author Flávio da Cunha Resende. The minimum public spending corresponds to the government participation in activities such as administration, justice, defense and security policies, those considered as the state’s typical functions. The social spendings is represented by the expense with health, education, insurance and social assistance, those linked to the social and constitutional rights. The economic activities refer to the government’s fomentation or direct intervention in activities like agriculture, mining, transport and commerce, therefore, the activities in which the market’s agents are prime targets. As it’s ends, the research is classified as descriptive/explanatory, because, by the observation of one phenomenon and it’s variations, aim to explain what is the scenario of the political influence on public spendings. As it’s means, the study is search or documentary, because used public domain’s documents for it’s topics, as well the combination of budget data of the historical series of 16 years. As regards of the results, it was possible to observe that the political cycle have changed the state’s budget allocation’s profile. The management of PSDB, considered by the literature as suitable to state’s minimization policies, comprising the liberal spectrum ofthedebate,ledto a tendency to reduce the budget allocation in the functions that form the social and economic expenses, directing, proportionally, more budget to the functions that represents the minimum public spending. On the contrary, the management of MDB, considered in this analyzes as belonging to the brazilian’s centre-left and, therefore, with a developmental perspective, tended to focus it’s budgets on the functions that represents the social and economics expenses, reducing, systematically, the budget allocation of the functions that represents the minimum public spending.