Title: O setor privado sem fins lucrativos e as políticas públicas de esporte e lazer (2008-2011)
Abstract: The strong growth of the non-profitable private sector from the 1990s generated a series of studies, mainly due to the impacts suffered by social policies during that period.This is because, it was put into practice a series of neoliberal measures in order to integrate macro-economically developing countries such as Brazil.Among such measures, the process in which the State abdicates the responsibility related to the guarantee of social rights -historically constructed through the various processes of struggle of social movements -stands out.Sport and leisure, comprehended as rights, did not escape the consequences of such policies, becoming, largely provided by private entities, which jeopardizes -among other issues -the universal access to these practices .Given this process, this paper investigates the presence of the non-profitable private sector in the public policies of sport and leisure through the public financing of their actions.Therefore, we analyzed the design of a "third sector" as opposed to the proposals centered on the concept of civil society.To achieve this goal, we conducted a mapping of private organizations that were funded by the Federal Government to run sports and leisure activities in Brazil during the period 2008 to 2011.This survey enabled us to deconstruct the proposal of a "third sector" taken as a homogeneous space, that represented the aspirations dispersed in society and in which solidarity, fairness and efficiency prevail.Instead, the results present an extremely heterogeneous group, composed by organizations with a variety of distinct goals.Finally, we demonstrate that the transfer of the State's role as responsible to guarantee rights, towards the non-profitable private sector collaborates to the logic of the capital since it does not contribute to the real universalization of social rights, and therefore, it does not represent a movement in the direction of the establishment of democracy as a totalizing project of society.