A Lei da Transparência na gestão pública municipal: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The collection of citizens for improvements in public management has become more effective with the new mechanisms of supervision and participation, especially from the so-called Transparency Law and other Laws and Decrees that complemented it. In this context, the federal government also created the Transparent Brazil Scale (EBT), to measure the degree of transparency of Brazilian municipalities. Thus, given the difficulties of small Brazilian municipalities, we sought to investigate how the Transparency Law was assimilated and managed by the public management of the municipality of Serra Talhada/PE, which in 2018 obtained a maximum score in the EBT. An exploratory-descriptive research was carried out, comparing the dimensions of EBT in the websites of four large municipalities of the Pernambuco hinterland (Serra Talhada, Salgueiro, Caruaru and Petrolina), in order to discover how the availability of information by municipal public managers can open a communication channel essential to the needs of society. It is perceived that a municipal public manager will be better fulfilling his role when he publishes all the necessary information for the citizen. To the extent that it complies with one of the five principles of Brazilian public administration, publicize, the municipal manager provides an important communication channel, which can, in turn, improve interactivity with the population.