O Cidadão nas Políticas Públicas: Realidade ou Utopia?

The article if considers to identify in the fields of the public sphere, the public politics and the theory of the complexity elements that take the public politics to reconsider the citizen as principal actor of the public sphere, verifying evidences of its use in strategical lines of the cities. By means of research qualitative and exploratória concludes that, in the majority of the experiences of public politics analyzed the citizen, when is taken in consideration, it occupies secondary positions. Of the theoretical point of view, this if must to the fact predominate in the processes of elaboration of the public politics, linear, instrumental and exculpatory rationalities, in detriment of nonlinear and opened rationalities to the yearnings of the citizens.