Controle na administração pública brasileira: bases normativas da trânsparência e do acesso às informações públicas para efetivação do controle social

Abstract

The quest for greater participation of Brazilian citizens in setting priorities in the application of public resources, monitoring and oversight of government actions is current and recurring theme in discussions of both the Public Administration, as the citizens themselves. This work enters precisely this context, where the gradual opening of public information to internal and external users, the adoption of practices of transparency in management and induction development of measures that give the opportunity for the exercise of social control become the rule, the prism social and normative. The problem that instigates the present work is to seek to know what are the substrates that support normative Brazilian legislation regarding the control of public accounts, access to information and government transparency. It presents the main ways of exercising control over the acts of the public administration, which are internal control, external control and social control, emphasizing the growing importance of the latter. Subsequently, an analysis is performed of the importance of promoting transparency and public access to information and public data to control the exercise of a social conscious. Further, a survey of major national and supranational concerning freedom of access to information, control and transparency in government, including those that apply to the production and storage of information in nature state, culminating in the analysis of recent Law No. 12.527/2011 Act (Access to Information). What we see is the concern of the legislature provide the State with mechanisms increasingly comprehensive and enhanced generation, storage and disclosure of information, deserving more attention in the investment policies in Education Tax and awareness of the issues accustomed to public area, aiming to enhance existing mechanisms for social control of public management.