Desafios e possibilidades para o controle social de políticas públicas no atual contexto de retrocesso dos direitos sociais

The aim of this text is to resume the importance of the exercise of democratic social control of public policies, problematizing its reach in a capitalist, authoritarian and conservative state, to stimulate participatory processes within the social policies, which simultaneously strive for the expansion of social rights from an emancipatory point of view and broaden the collective consciousness and popular organization. First, we present a vision of public policies in the current context, then the challenges for the exercise of democratic social control, ending with the indication of some strategic possibilities for its implementation.