Abstract
The Brazilian state and society have undergone great changes since 1995 in the direction of a new pattern of relations between them and the production of a new hegemony. These changes are reflected in to the appearance of a discourse on the nongovernment public sector and the broadening of what is understood as public territory outside the state. A type of collaboration between the state and society has developed that involves organizations of civil society with public functions, called the “third sector” to indicate their mediation between the state and the market, reinforcing the withdrawal of politics from social policy.
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