Street level burocracy and public policies for youth at the municipal scope: Dilemms and challenges of implementation in a small municipality in São Paulo countryside region
This research work aims to discuss public policies for youth, focusing on the implementation phase, as well as on the daily work of municipal public agents, who work on the front lines of these policies, the so-called “street-level bureaucrats”, as presented by the literature. It is intended to analyze the relational processes of agents inserted in
the public care network of a small municipality in the interior of São Paulo, the city of Porto Feliz, in the State of São Paulo, during municipal management in office for the 2017-2020 quadrennium. Seeking to analyze such processes from an intersectoral perspective of action with the sectoral policies of the territory. The research work uses documentary methods, with a survey and bibliographic study on the “state of the art” of youth and public policies, field observation and interviews for empirical understanding of part of this youth universe and its implications for public and social policies . As a consequence of this perspective implies, the hypothesis that values and beliefs about youth are part of the public policy processes aimed at these
subjects. The initial interest of this research is based on looking at the performance of “street-level bureaucrats”, giving a voice to professionals who work directly with youths at the tip of services at the municipal level, as a way of translating perceptions, difficulties and strategies used to access of policies among the subjects involved in this relationship, seeking to present new readings about youth policies.