Integração regional e democracia participativa no Mercosul: uma análise sobre o Mercosul social e participativo

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Jessica Gomes
• Orientador(a): Martinez, Elias David Morales
• Banca de defesa: Nogueira, Silvia Garcia , Rodrigues, Gilberto Marcos Antônio
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Relações Internacionais - PPGRI
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas - CCBSA; Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa - PRPGP
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Integração regional; Democracia; Mercosul social e participativo; Mercosul
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Regional Integration; Democracy; Mercosur Social and Participative.; Mercosur
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: OUTROS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.uepb.edu.br/handle/123456789/74358

This dissertation paper analyzes the social dimension in the Regional Integration Process through participatory democracy. In this regard, we go through the historical background of integration and transformations that happened in the forms of South America’s government, until the arrival of democracy. In general, the South American’s countries were subject to social upheavals and military coups, but in the mid-1980s, the region initiated the re-democratization period. Democracy has been considered as an important factor to bring better socio-economic conditions to the Southern Cone, so it is necessary that citizens become participants in this process. In this research will be analyzed how the Mercosur acts in a creating policies for realization of popular participation, representing a maturing of the block so that the social issue is more debated, finding in the Mercosur Social and Participative incentive for greater social participation, it will be performed a study of the social initiatives of the block. By presenting the theoretical basis of regional integration, it was demonstrate the applicability of regional integration’s theories, the Functionalism and Neofunctionalism to explain the block’s case. Firstly this study aims to analyze Mercosur’s social measures, we aim to investigate how these initiatives contribute to the deepening of the social dimension of the block.