Journal of Physical Education and Sports Management

The Politically Motivated Decentralization of Program of Sports and Leisure of the City
Edmilson Santos dos Santos, Fernando Augusto Starepravo, Edson Hirata

Abstract
Municipal government, being implementation agents in several public policies, can mobilize their networking in order to potentialize their accession to the Program, as long as this may be a component of their priority roster, which depends on the political motivations, in its turn affected by its partisan interests. For that matter, this current study, which has a descriptive approach, pursued to evaluate the impact of the mayor’s variable political party impact in PSLC decentralization (Program of Sports and Leisure of the City, PELC in Portuguese), contemplating three electoral cycles for the constitution of municipal governments (2000/04; 2005/08; 2009/2012). In general terms, the low level of the municipals’ accession to PSLC, being either in national range or federal states, suggest that the incentive structure did not offer, to the municipal managers, a balance between the costs and benefits that could motivate them to politically access the Program, once this structure may have built a barrier to the Program’s national expansion.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jpesm.v7n1a5