Do political participation and fiscal management explainsocial development in Brazilian municipalities?

The article's aim is to verify if political participation and fiscal management explain social development of Brazilian municipalities. The participatory process strengthens the promotion of inclusive initiatives, while fiscal management ensures the stabilizer function, in order to promote social development. Under the methodological perspective, this is an ex-post-facto research, which is intended to verify, quantitatively, the existence of significant relationship between the variables: political participation; fiscal management; and social development. The main result of this study was the finding of statistical significance that exist a positive relationship of social development with political participation and fiscal management. In addition, it was observed that adding a control variable related to the regional issue, we should identify the occurrence of explanation gains. In a nutshell, participatory political institutions and responsible fiscal perspectives can promote a virtuous circle focus on reduction of poverty, in order to improve social development.