Civil society organizations and social innovation. How and to what extent are they influencing social and political change?

Autores/as

  • Carolina Andion Universidad de la Província de Santa Catarina (UDESC) - Florianópolis - Brasil
  • Rubens Lima Moraes Concordia University - Montréal – Canada.
  • Aghata Gonsalves Universidad de la Provincia de Santa Catarina (UDESC) - Florianópolis - Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/CIRIEC-E.90.8808

Resumen

This study aims to understand how civil society organizations (CSOs) perform and influence public arenas. The focus of this paper is the transformative scope of social innovation initiatives promoted by CSOs
in two public arenas in Brazil: the fight against electoral corruption and the protection of children and adolescents’ rights. The research consisted of three stages: 1) controversy mapping to understand the configuration of
these public arenas and compare the trajectories of the public problems studied; 2) observation of the “field of experience” of some CSOs that perform in these arenas; and 3) analysis of “political grammars” produced in public arenas, connecting them to the performance of the CSOs analysed. The results reveal how social innovation emerges, develops and is disseminated in the public arenas studied and highlights the similarities and differences between the two cases, discussing the practices and role of CSOs in these processes. As conclusions, the study indicates that social innovation initiatives promoted by CSOs are influenced by and have an effect on the “political culture” in the public arenas. Additionally, this work states that the regime of CSOs’ engagement in the public sphere and their performance have consequences in terms of influence on social and political changes. In the cases studied, when CSOs go beyond the logic of coproduction of public services and engage in “public inquiry” processes, their capacity to inspire social transformation seems to be enhanced.

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Biografía del autor/a

Carolina Andion, Universidad de la Província de Santa Catarina (UDESC) - Florianópolis - Brasil

Carolina Andion is member of the Scientific Comission in Social Economy at CIRIEC International. She has Postdoctoral degree in Social Economy hold in 2015/2016 in the Research Institute in Social Economy, Cooperativism and Entrepreneurship (IUDESCOOP) at  Valência University, Spain and holds a PhD in Human Sciences from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She is assitant professor in the Administration and Socioeconomics’ Sciences Center (ESAG) at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC) where she leads the Research Group on Social Innovations in the Public Sphere (NISP) (www.blogdonisp.com.br).   She is graduated in administration from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) (1994) and have a master’s degree in management from the École de Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (HEC) (1998). In 2007, she finished her Human Sciences PhD in the area of society and the environment. From June 2005 to July 2006, she completed her doctoral internship at the François Rabelais University (VST/CITERES Laboratory), in France, having worked with the theme of territorial development. During this time, she spent one month as a researcher at the Community University Research Alliance in Social Economy (ARUC/ES) and the Social Innovations Research Center (CRISES), both part of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). She has more than fifteen years experience working as a university professor in the areas of civil society organizations and social economy having delivered undergraduate and post graduate lectures at several Universities as the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSAL), the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS) and the University of Salvador (UNIFACS) in Bahia, aswell as the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), the Catholic Pontific University of Paraná (PUC-PR) and UNIFAE Paraná. She has published countless scientific papers and has great professional experience in the fields of civil society organizations, social economy and social responsibility in different sectors in Brazil. She  has worked as a manager and/or consultant for among others companies: Odebrecht S.A. (BA), the Odebrecht Foundation (BA), the Municipa lInstitute of Public Administration (IMAP) (PR). the Community Institute of Grande Florianópolis (ICom) ans Guga Kuerten Institute (SC). Her areas of interest are civil society and public action, social innovation in the public sector, social and solidarity economy, public policies and public administration science and epistemology.

Rubens Lima Moraes, Concordia University - Montréal – Canada.

Master in Public Administration by Santa Catarina State University (UDESC). Ph.D. Student in Political Science at Concordia University (Montréal – Canada). Member of the Research Group on Social Innovation in the Public Sphere (NISP)

Aghata Gonsalves, Universidad de la Provincia de Santa Catarina (UDESC) - Florianópolis - Brasil

Master in Public Administration by Santa Catarina State University (UDESC). Member of the Research Group on Social Innovation in the Public Sphere (NISP). Consultant for nonprofits institutional development at the Community Foundation for Greater Florianópolis (ICOM)

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Publicado

2017-09-25

Cómo citar

Andion, C., Moraes, R. L., & Gonsalves, A. (2017). Civil society organizations and social innovation. How and to what extent are they influencing social and political change?. CIRIEC-España, Revista De economía Pública, Social Y Cooperativa, (90), 5–34. https://doi.org/10.7203/CIRIEC-E.90.8808
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