Fomento ao controle social: a participação da sociedade na gestão pública sob a ótica da Controladoria-Geral da União

Abstract

Social control is a mechanism of popular participation in public management that can favor the control of the acts of public governments and thus provide the well-being of the Brazilian population. This research aimed to investigate the foundations of the Comptroller General of the Union for citizen participation in public administration. The design of the research was based on documentary research. Data analysis was based on thematic analysis because it is a method for identifying, analyzing, organizing, describing and reporting themes found in a dataset. The research provided the understanding by which social control is effective through the initiative of the public entity in providing the active participation of society through mechanisms of exercise of control, forms of exercise of social control with popular participation in public management and possibilities for interaction between the Comptroller General of the Union and society. It was concluded that the instrumentalization by the Comptroller General of the Union with regard to "Social Control" can promote the involvement and participation of society in the actions of public managers through the deliberation, manifestation, formulation proposals for improvements for proper use of the public treasury.