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This thesis is part of the debate on relations among social movements, political parties and the State and is focused on the analysis of an institutionalized space for social participation, namely, the Participatory Budget. It carries out a revised theoretical approach of the Political Confrontation Theory in order to consider the repertoire of social movements in institutional and non-institutional politics. From an empirical point of view, we studied an interconnected set of collective actors: the social movements of Serra (ES), political parties, and the State. These are directly involved in the historical and political context in the framing of this study (1980 - 2015), being analytical components of the research problem. The central question was to understand how the political parties (and their agents) and the social movements in Serra behaved before the State both prior to and after the introduction of an institutionalized space for social participation. Thus, we sought to identify the influences of political parties on the social movements and viceversa. For the implementation of this analysis, we made use of historicaldocumentary research supported by narratives from key actors in that process. Among the final considerations to be assessed, we found that the use of the repertoire of social movement action in Serra underwent substantial transformations after its insertion into institutionalized politics. Whereas in the 1980s the use of a repertoire of political confrontation predominated, upon the liberalization of an institutionalized space for social participation, the use of a repertoire marked by strategies of proximity stand out, although the repertoire of confrontation hadnt been completely suspended. Social problems and the absence of the State in the 1980s, in addition to the expansion of political opportunities, the reduction of restrictions, and the existence of a significant social cohesion, enabled the creation of an initial interpretive political scene marked by the notions of social participation, State accountability for the precarious social conditions of a large part of the population, which was transformed into a connection between the interpretive direction of individuals and of organizations, giving strength to the idea that the creation of an institutionalized space for social participation was necessary. At the same time the social movement was strengthened, it was harnessed by the political parties which removed the nonorganized civil society from the Participatory Budget. The study of the experience of Serra, ES, in highlighting a reality which, to some extent, takes place in several Brazilian cities aids in allowing us to consider the relations among social movements, political parties, and the State (from the perspective of the State movement intersections) in the current democratic context
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