Researchers collaborating on the project "Social Network and Public Policy"
Members
Renata Mirandola Bichir
Miranda Zoppi
Lucas Brandão
Karina Kuschnir
Coordinator
Members
Renata Mirandola Bichir
Miranda Zoppi
Lucas Brandão
Karina Kuschnir
Coordinator
Members
Maria Encarcación Moya
Renata Gonçalves
Camila Saraiva
Coordinator
Members
Renata Mirandola Bichir
Miranda Julia de Oliveira Zoppi
Maria Encarnación Moya Recio
Graziela Luz Castello
Maira Rodrigues
Rafael Barros Soares
Coordinator
Members
Samuel Ralize de Godoy
Ana Beatriz Henriques
Telma Hoyler
Leandro Padua Rodrigues
Carolina Requena Pereira
Marcos Vinicius Lopes Campos
Karin Deleuse Blikstad
Ana Paula Galdeano Cruz
Coordinator
New studies adopting social network analysis have been improving the understanding of processes within the State, shedding light on the relationship between the State and its immediate political surroundings, especially politicians and private companies. This set of studies showed the importance of networks in the operation of public policies. However, given the specificities of the policies studied, these investigations did not provide a significant contribution to the connections of networks within the State, their associative web and the users of the policies. On the other hand, studies on social inequalities faced by cities give special attention to the so-called street-level bureaucracy along with popular organizations. This research aims to fulfill this gap by analyzing the case of the last five governments of the city of São Paulo in a particularly relevant policy to urban inequalities – housing policies. This policy counts on organized social movements, and also on a state bureaucracy traditionally connected to them, therefore helping us to understand more about the State and its role on the reproduction of social inequalities in the city.
This research investigates recently adopted housing policies within the Brazilian metropolitan context. It also analyzes the main features of popular housing alternatives in the metropolises. The study counts on primary data collected from municipal public agencies and relating to housing policies and other housing alternatives, and geocoded demographic information that can be overlaid with census data. By the use of Geographical Information Systems, the research can produce a profile of the population living in each of the alternatives – shanty towns (favelas) and public housing projects – and problematize the literature on urban studies and urban sociology.
New studies adopting social network analysis have been improving the understanding of processes within the State, shedding light on the relationship between the State and its immediate political surroundings, especially politicians and private companies. This set of studies showed the importance of networks in the operation of public policies. However, given the specificities of the policies studied, these investigations did not provide a significant contribution to the connections of networks within the State, their associative web and the users of the policies. On the other hand, studies on social inequalities faced by cities give special attention to the so-called street-level bureaucracy along with popular organizations. This research aims to fulfill this gap by analyzing the case of the last five governments of the city of São Paulo in a particularly relevant policy to urban inequalities – housing policies. This policy counts on organized social movements, and also on a state bureaucracy traditionally connected to them, therefore helping us to understand more about the State and its role on the reproduction of social inequalities in the city.
The objective of this investigation is to compare patterns of governance in large cities by focusing on São Paulo, Paris, London and Mexico City in cooperation with research teams from Science Po, Paris, Bartlet School in London and Cide in Mexico. We do not expect to find single or coherent patterns of government and governance in each city (or even among them) but rather different patterns depending on the way a specific policy area combines the interactions of state agents from various levels of authority with the private initiative and groups (legal and illegal) from the civil society, acting within diverse relational and institutional environments. In theoretical terms it means to overcome the classical issue of Who governs? by asking Who governs What? and also Who governs When the State does not? The comparison follows a case study logic investigating the existence of processes and their combination order so as to specify under what conditions the various patterns of governance found are formed and operate.