This paper analyses the role of the State and the social polices having as center the leisure and the governmental programs in the Brazil. It was a work based on documental research, supported by authors such as Bobbio (1990), Burzstin (1998), Santos (1997) and Mascarenhas (2004). The theoretical reference was centered in categories such as State, social polices, participative democracy and leisure. It is proposed a critical comprehension of the scene of the institutionalization of the social polices in Brazil that has its' focus on the leisure.