Conselhos gestores de políticas públicas: aspectos teóricos sobre o potencial de controle social democrático e eficiente Management councils of public policies: theoretical aspects on the potential of a democratic and effective social control

The proliferation of management councils of public policies gives rise to assessing their potential to deepen the democratic contents of the public management and increase the effectiveness of public policies through social control. With this purpose, this theoretical essay opposes the representative and deliberative dimensions in democracy to criticism against the representative system and the democratic method of aggregating preferences, and it also analyzes the propensity for government accountability as for the signalization of policies processed by the council. Argumentation relies on significant international studies about the models of representative and deliberative democracy and on dialogue with Brazilian studies addressing the theme social control. It is concluded that the councils have potential to foster a democratic deepening in management of public policies, particularly by strengthening conditions that enable an