<p>Municipal councils are vested with the legal authority to promote financial accountability in their respective municipalities. To accomplish this responsibility, municipal council establishes committees to enable a structured and coordinated mechanism through which it can promote financial accountability effectively. However and despite the available legal and institutional mechanisms established to enable council committees to promote financial accountability, the lack of effective financial accountability in municipalities has persisted. This study focused on the role of council committees in ensuring financial accountability. It was guided by the following research questions: What are the major factors that contribute to financial accountability at local level, what is the role of council committees in promoting financial accountability and how can council committees be strengthened to play an effective role in Stellenbosch municipality&rsquo / s municipal financial accountability. Stellenbosch Local Municipality was used as a case study for this research. The data was collected from primary and secondary sources. Primary data was sourced from members of relevant council committees through structured and unstructured interviews. Secondary data was obtained from relevant municipal reports, internet sources, government department publications, journals and Auditor - General&rsquo / s reports which contributed to the reliability, validity and objectivity of the findings. The findings showed that political instability, a lack of a culture of accountability, lack of clearly defined authority for accountability, lack of relevant capacity and willingness are some of the major factors that have impacted negatively on council committees from promoting effective financial accountability. The study opens up the possibility of future research to include a wider number of municipalities.</p>

<p>Municipal councils are vested with the legal authority to promote financial accountability in their respective municipalities. To accomplish this responsibility, municipal council establishes committees to enable a structured and coordinated mechanism through which it can promote financial accountability effectively. However and despite the available legal and institutional mechanisms established to enable council committees to promote financial accountability, the lack of effective financial accountability in municipalities has persisted. This study focused on the role of council committees in ensuring financial accountability. It was guided by the following research questions: What are the major factors that contribute to financial accountability at local level, what is the role of council committees in promoting financial accountability and how can council committees be strengthened to play an effective role in Stellenbosch municipality&rsquo / s municipal financial accountability. Stellenbosch Local Municipality was used as a case study for this research. The data was collected from primary and secondary sources. Primary data was sourced from members of relevant council committees through structured and unstructured interviews. Secondary data was obtained from relevant municipal reports, internet sources, government department publications, journals and Auditor - General&rsquo / s reports which contributed to the reliability, validity and objectivity of the findings. The findings showed that political instability, a lack of a culture of accountability, lack of clearly defined authority for accountability, lack of relevant capacity and willingness are some of the major factors that have impacted negatively on council committees from promoting effective financial accountability. The study opens up the possibility of future research to include a wider number of municipalities.</p>

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As câmaras municipais constituíram-se em um dos mais notáveis mecanismos de manutenção do vasto império ultramarino português. Originavam-se dos antigos conselhos medievais, aglutinavam os interesses das elites coloniais ao serem compostas pelos homens bons da colônia, detinham considerável poder sobre a sociedade local além de terem a liberdade de representar ao rei de Portugal seus anseios ou dificuldades. Paralelo, ao poder do senado da câmara municipal, encontravam-se as autoridades nomeadas pelo rei de Portugal: governadores coloniais. Este compartilhamento do poder na colônia gerava, muitas vezes, conflitos entre a câmara municipal e os funcionários régios. No Rio de Janeiro, setecentista, vários fatores internos e externos à colônia deterioraram as relações entre os governadores coloniais e os membros do senado.Tal situação agrava-se com as incursões corsárias francesas de 1710 e 1711 que demonstraram a fragilidade do império português que há muito deixara de ter um poder naval significativo, perdendo espaços para potências como a França, Inglaterra e Holanda. Incapaz de conter os inimigos no vasto oceano, desprovido de meios navais capazes de patrulhar os litorais de suas colônias na África, Ásia e América, em especial o do Brasil, o império português dependia cada vez mais dos recursos humanos de suas colônias para a manutenção do seu território ultramarino. A corte portuguesa sofreu duro impacto com a conquista da cidade do Rio de Janeiro por Duguay-Trouin e, ao longo dos próximos anos, procurou fortalecer o sistema defensivo de sua colônia com o envio de tropas e navios além da construção de novas fortalezas e o reaparelhamento do sistema defensivo já existente.Todo este esforço para a guerra era bancado, em sua maior parte, com recursos da própria colônia do Rio de Janeiro. Obviamente este ônus não agradava a incipiente elite mercantil que florescia na colônia resultando no fato de que a política de enclausurar o Rio de Janeiro entre muralhas e fortificações, ás custas da economia colonial, colocou em campos opostos os funcionários do rei e os membros do senado por várias vezes nas primeiras décadas do século XVIII. Surgiram inevitáveis conflitos pelo uso e posse do território urbano do Rio de Janeiro cada vez mais pontilhado por fortalezas, sulcado por extensas valas e trincheiras a impedir-lhe o crescimento urbano. Além do conflito territorial, em função da expansão da atividade mercantil desenvolvida pelos colonos, as disputas comerciais envolveram as elites locais, ávidas por lucros e impulsionadas ao comércio devido à descoberta do ouro na região das Minas, e as autoridades e comerciantes lusos, uns querendo controlar a atividade comercial que crescia em acelerado ritmo, outros querendo lucrar e disputar espaços com as elites coloniais locais. No meio destes embates encontrava-se a Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, objetivo maior desta pesquisa, a defender os interesses das elites da colônia, pois delas era representante. Era uma disputa em que, muitas vezes, seus membros pagaram com a perda da liberdade e dos seus bens frente a governadores coloniais mais intolerantes / he municipal councils constituted into one of the most important mechanisms for maintaining the Portuguese overseas empire. It stemmed from the ancient medieval councils, accumulated the colonial elites interests which were written by good men of the colony, and held considerable power over local society, as well as the freedom to represent the concerns and difficulties of the Portuguese king. Parallel to the senate power of the city council, the authorities were appointed by the king of Portugal: colonial governors. This share of power generated in colony many conflicts between the colonial governors and senate members. In Rio Janeiro, during the eighteenth century, several internal and external factors to the colony deteriorated relations between the colonial governors and members of the senate. This situation is aggravated by the incursions of French corsairs in 1710 and 1711 and it demonstrated the fragility of the Portuguese empires that had long ceased its significant naval power, losing the power over France, England and Holland. Unable to control the enemies in the vast ocean and devoid of naval able to patrol the coasts colonies in Africa, Asia and America, especially the Brazil, the Portuguese empire depended increasingly on the resources of colonies to maintain the overseas territory. The Portuguese court has suffered a hard impact with the conquest of Rio de Janeiro by the Duguay-Trouin, and over the next few years it tried to strengthen the defensive system of the colony by sending troops and ships as well as building new fortifications and refitting of the existing defensive system. All this effort for the war was financed, in most part, with resources from the own Rio de Janeiro. Obviously, this burden did not appeal the emerging mercantile elite that flourished in the colony resulting in the fact that the policy of locking up the Rio de Janeiro between walls and fortifications with the money of the colonial economy placed on opposing sides of the king and the staff members of the senate several times in the first decades of the eighteenth century. Arose conflicts for the use and ownership of urban territory of Rio de Janeiro increasingly dotted with forts, trenches and furrowed by long trenches to prevent the urban growth. As well as the territorial conflict, due to the expansion of commercial activity developed by settlers, trade disputes involving local elites, eager for profit and boosted trade to the discovery of gold in mines region, and Portuguese officials and traders, each wanting control the business activity grew at accelerated pace, others wanting to profit and dispute spaces with the local colonial elites. In the midst of these struggles was the municipal council of Rio de Janeiro, the main objective of this research, to defend the interests of the elites of the colony, as was their representative. It was a dispute in which, many times, members paid with the loss of liberty and their property against colonial governors more intolerant

This diploma thesis provides a complete information about local politics in the town of Vlašim. Theoretical basis is primary focused on the theory of coalitions and its typology. Then characterizes socio - economic indicators of the municipality, which have the main effects on the local political system. Further, it describes election periods from the year of 2002 to 2010. This part is important to know all contexts that have influenced today's composition of coalition and in fact the whole situation in the city council. The last chapter applies the theory of coalition at the local level. For the correct interpretation and understanding of the formation of coalitions in Vlašim it is fundamental to detect the local specificities such as motivation of creating partnership between the parties, relationships between councilors etc. Now it is possible to understand the local political scene and subsequently the principles of local coalitions.

As câmaras municipais constituíram-se em um dos mais notáveis mecanismos de manutenção do vasto império ultramarino português. Originavam-se dos antigos conselhos medievais, aglutinavam os interesses das elites coloniais ao serem compostas pelos homens bons da colônia, detinham considerável poder sobre a sociedade local além de terem a liberdade de representar ao rei de Portugal seus anseios ou dificuldades. Paralelo, ao poder do senado da câmara municipal, encontravam-se as autoridades nomeadas pelo rei de Portugal: governadores coloniais. Este compartilhamento do poder na colônia gerava, muitas vezes, conflitos entre a câmara municipal e os funcionários régios. No Rio de Janeiro, setecentista, vários fatores internos e externos à colônia deterioraram as relações entre os governadores coloniais e os membros do senado.Tal situação agrava-se com as incursões corsárias francesas de 1710 e 1711 que demonstraram a fragilidade do império português que há muito deixara de ter um poder naval significativo, perdendo espaços para potências como a França, Inglaterra e Holanda. Incapaz de conter os inimigos no vasto oceano, desprovido de meios navais capazes de patrulhar os litorais de suas colônias na África, Ásia e América, em especial o do Brasil, o império português dependia cada vez mais dos recursos humanos de suas colônias para a manutenção do seu território ultramarino. A corte portuguesa sofreu duro impacto com a conquista da cidade do Rio de Janeiro por Duguay-Trouin e, ao longo dos próximos anos, procurou fortalecer o sistema defensivo de sua colônia com o envio de tropas e navios além da construção de novas fortalezas e o reaparelhamento do sistema defensivo já existente.Todo este esforço para a guerra era bancado, em sua maior parte, com recursos da própria colônia do Rio de Janeiro. Obviamente este ônus não agradava a incipiente elite mercantil que florescia na colônia resultando no fato de que a política de enclausurar o Rio de Janeiro entre muralhas e fortificações, ás custas da economia colonial, colocou em campos opostos os funcionários do rei e os membros do senado por várias vezes nas primeiras décadas do século XVIII. Surgiram inevitáveis conflitos pelo uso e posse do território urbano do Rio de Janeiro cada vez mais pontilhado por fortalezas, sulcado por extensas valas e trincheiras a impedir-lhe o crescimento urbano. Além do conflito territorial, em função da expansão da atividade mercantil desenvolvida pelos colonos, as disputas comerciais envolveram as elites locais, ávidas por lucros e impulsionadas ao comércio devido à descoberta do ouro na região das Minas, e as autoridades e comerciantes lusos, uns querendo controlar a atividade comercial que crescia em acelerado ritmo, outros querendo lucrar e disputar espaços com as elites coloniais locais. No meio destes embates encontrava-se a Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, objetivo maior desta pesquisa, a defender os interesses das elites da colônia, pois delas era representante. Era uma disputa em que, muitas vezes, seus membros pagaram com a perda da liberdade e dos seus bens frente a governadores coloniais mais intolerantes / he municipal councils constituted into one of the most important mechanisms for maintaining the Portuguese overseas empire. It stemmed from the ancient medieval councils, accumulated the colonial elites interests which were written by good men of the colony, and held considerable power over local society, as well as the freedom to represent the concerns and difficulties of the Portuguese king. Parallel to the senate power of the city council, the authorities were appointed by the king of Portugal: colonial governors. This share of power generated in colony many conflicts between the colonial governors and senate members. In Rio Janeiro, during the eighteenth century, several internal and external factors to the colony deteriorated relations between the colonial governors and members of the senate. This situation is aggravated by the incursions of French corsairs in 1710 and 1711 and it demonstrated the fragility of the Portuguese empires that had long ceased its significant naval power, losing the power over France, England and Holland. Unable to control the enemies in the vast ocean and devoid of naval able to patrol the coasts colonies in Africa, Asia and America, especially the Brazil, the Portuguese empire depended increasingly on the resources of colonies to maintain the overseas territory. The Portuguese court has suffered a hard impact with the conquest of Rio de Janeiro by the Duguay-Trouin, and over the next few years it tried to strengthen the defensive system of the colony by sending troops and ships as well as building new fortifications and refitting of the existing defensive system. All this effort for the war was financed, in most part, with resources from the own Rio de Janeiro. Obviously, this burden did not appeal the emerging mercantile elite that flourished in the colony resulting in the fact that the policy of locking up the Rio de Janeiro between walls and fortifications with the money of the colonial economy placed on opposing sides of the king and the staff members of the senate several times in the first decades of the eighteenth century. Arose conflicts for the use and ownership of urban territory of Rio de Janeiro increasingly dotted with forts, trenches and furrowed by long trenches to prevent the urban growth. As well as the territorial conflict, due to the expansion of commercial activity developed by settlers, trade disputes involving local elites, eager for profit and boosted trade to the discovery of gold in mines region, and Portuguese officials and traders, each wanting control the business activity grew at accelerated pace, others wanting to profit and dispute spaces with the local colonial elites. In the midst of these struggles was the municipal council of Rio de Janeiro, the main objective of this research, to defend the interests of the elites of the colony, as was their representative. It was a dispute in which, many times, members paid with the loss of liberty and their property against colonial governors more intolerant

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-03-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:52:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_cah_me_rcla.pdf: 280501 bytes, checksum: 49da96d01708ad8373f30916cdc62903 (MD5) / A pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o momento de reestruturação do Conselho Municipal de Educação de Rio Claro – COMERC –, no ano de 1997, com a promulgação da Lei nº 2.940/97. Neste mesmo ano os rio-clarenses puderam participar da I Conferência Municipal de Educação, que dentre outras temáticas abordadas encontrava-se o COMERC e a Lei nº 2.772/95, que o regulamentou. Os documentos dessa Conferência explicitam que o Poder Executivo, mais especificadamente o Prefeito e o Secretário Municipal de Educação, proclamavam a democratização do COMERC, sendo esta uma das propostas do plano de governo com o qual a “Frente Rio Claro” ganhou as eleições municipais no ano de 1996. O objetivo de reestruturá-lo, principalmente no que concerne à sua composição, foi motivo de grande embate entre aqueles que o defendiam com uma representatividade mais ampla e aqueles que o concebiam composto de especialistas em educação, conferindo-lhe, portanto, um caráter técnico. A análise dos documentos oficiais da Câmara Municipal de Rio Claro no que tange ao processo de tramitação da Lei nº 2.940/97 foi fundamental para compreendermos se os anseios da população rio-clarense, explicitados na Conferência, foram de fato atendidos. Importou-nos, ainda, desvelar, através de pesquisa bibliográfica, os conceitos de democracia, participação, cidadania e sociedade civil atrelados à concretização do princípio da gestão democrática do ensino público por meio de mecanismos como o Conselho Municipal de Educação, buscando, ainda, entender como esses conceitos foram sendo ressignificados, particularmente nos anos noventa, no contexto da reforma do Estado. Além da pesquisa bibliográfica e da pesquisa documental, para a realização deste trabalho de abordagem qualitativa, lançamos mão de entrevistas com três conselheiros que assumiram o COMERC logo após a aprovação... / The objective of this research is to analyze the restructuration of the Municipal Council of Education of Rio Claro – COMERC – occurred in 1997, promulgated by the Law no. 2.940/97. Rio Claro citizens participated of the First Municipal Conference of Education in 1997, where COMERC was highlighted and regulated by law no. 2.772/95. The documentation of this Conference expresses the democratization of COMERC declared by the Executive Power, more specifically the Mayor and the Municipal Secretary. This action assured the government plan “Frente Rio Claro” to win the municipal election in 1996. In order to restructure the composition of the Educational Council divergences on a wide representative and a more restrict participation of educators, concerning a technical viewpoint took place. The examination of official documentation of Municipal City Hall of Rio Claro related to transmutation process Law no. 2.940/97 was of extreme importance to clarify the population demand and their realization. Moreover, a bibliographical research promoted concepts of democracy, participation, citizenship, civil society, related to the democratic management principles of public schooling and education through Municipal Council of Education. In addition, there was an attempt to understand how these concepts influenciated the State reform of the 90’s. This research had a qualitative approach including bibliographical and documental research, as well as interviews with three councilors responsible by COMERC after the approval of the law no.2.940/07, representing Municipal Public Power, State Public Power and Civil Society. Through the inquiry, we identify the limits and the means of functioning for the COMERC. If on a side, the lack of infrastructure made difficult the autonomy of this organ again colegiado, for other, Rio Claro assisted the spacious participation of the society in First Municipal... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Maria Aparecida Segatto Muranaka / Banca: Cleiton de Oliveira / Banca: Joyce Mary Adam de Paula e Silva / Resumo: A pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o momento de reestruturação do Conselho Municipal de Educação de Rio Claro - COMERC -, no ano de 1997, com a promulgação da Lei nº 2.940/97. Neste mesmo ano os rio-clarenses puderam participar da I Conferência Municipal de Educação, que dentre outras temáticas abordadas encontrava-se o COMERC e a Lei nº 2.772/95, que o regulamentou. Os documentos dessa Conferência explicitam que o Poder Executivo, mais especificadamente o Prefeito e o Secretário Municipal de Educação, proclamavam a democratização do COMERC, sendo esta uma das propostas do plano de governo com o qual a "Frente Rio Claro" ganhou as eleições municipais no ano de 1996. O objetivo de reestruturá-lo, principalmente no que concerne à sua composição, foi motivo de grande embate entre aqueles que o defendiam com uma representatividade mais ampla e aqueles que o concebiam composto de especialistas em educação, conferindo-lhe, portanto, um caráter técnico. A análise dos documentos oficiais da Câmara Municipal de Rio Claro no que tange ao processo de tramitação da Lei nº 2.940/97 foi fundamental para compreendermos se os anseios da população rio-clarense, explicitados na Conferência, foram de fato atendidos. Importou-nos, ainda, desvelar, através de pesquisa bibliográfica, os conceitos de democracia, participação, cidadania e sociedade civil atrelados à concretização do princípio da gestão democrática do ensino público por meio de mecanismos como o Conselho Municipal de Educação, buscando, ainda, entender como esses conceitos foram sendo ressignificados, particularmente nos anos noventa, no contexto da reforma do Estado. Além da pesquisa bibliográfica e da pesquisa documental, para a realização deste trabalho de abordagem qualitativa, lançamos mão de entrevistas com três conselheiros que assumiram o COMERC logo após a aprovação... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The objective of this research is to analyze the restructuration of the Municipal Council of Education of Rio Claro - COMERC - occurred in 1997, promulgated by the Law no. 2.940/97. Rio Claro citizens participated of the First Municipal Conference of Education in 1997, where COMERC was highlighted and regulated by law no. 2.772/95. The documentation of this Conference expresses the democratization of COMERC declared by the Executive Power, more specifically the Mayor and the Municipal Secretary. This action assured the government plan "Frente Rio Claro" to win the municipal election in 1996. In order to restructure the composition of the Educational Council divergences on a wide representative and a more restrict participation of educators, concerning a technical viewpoint took place. The examination of official documentation of Municipal City Hall of Rio Claro related to transmutation process Law no. 2.940/97 was of extreme importance to clarify the population demand and their realization. Moreover, a bibliographical research promoted concepts of democracy, participation, citizenship, civil society, related to the democratic management principles of public schooling and education through Municipal Council of Education. In addition, there was an attempt to understand how these concepts influenciated the State reform of the 90's. This research had a qualitative approach including bibliographical and documental research, as well as interviews with three councilors responsible by COMERC after the approval of the law no.2.940/07, representing Municipal Public Power, State Public Power and Civil Society. Through the inquiry, we identify the limits and the means of functioning for the COMERC. If on a side, the lack of infrastructure made difficult the autonomy of this organ again colegiado, for other, Rio Claro assisted the spacious participation of the society in First Municipal... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Luciana Ferreira Tatagiba / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T05:54:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Trindade_ThiagoAparecido_M.pdf: 1997290 bytes, checksum: 6495ba06fb08f1bcc057cbc3c80b61b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Abstract: The central goal of the present research is to examine the Municipal Development Council on the Environment of Campinas (COMDEMA) performance in the control of rural land illegal parceling in the region encompassed by the municipality Environmental Protection Area (EPA). It should be noted that Campinas EPA constitutes the preferred site occupation of social segments with higher income, and the illegal subdivisions at the region would have as its goal the production of essential residential and/or leisure activities for these segments. So, the council has levied a firmer stance of the Executive with respect to the division of Campinas EPA rural land, and a more careful application of urbanenvironmental guidelines provided in the Director Plan of the municipality for the referred area. The research is also concerned in examine the general contours of the political relationship between the Executive and the COMDEMA in the construction of urban and environmental policy in Campinas. The central axis of such conflict revolves around the formally existent instruments of participatory democracy and the economic interests of agents connected to the housing market. As a tool for the analysis of such political clashes, we rely primarily on guidelines established by the City Statute, legislation passed in 2001 which gives great importance to the democratic and participatory management of the city / Mestrado / Mestre em Ciência Política