Gestão pública: transparência, controle social e acesso à informação

Abstract

In the last decades, transparency and social control in public management have become a subject of great social relevance, especially after Law 12,527 / 2011, the Law on Access to Information comes into force on May 16, 2012, this Law on the procedures to be observed by the Union, States, Federal District and Municipalities, in order to guarantee access to information. The relationship transparency, social control and Access to Information is the target of the discussion of this work and its main objective is to analyze this relationship starting from the assumption that they are democratic tools that involve in a single context, the State and the Citizen, focusing on the citizen who must exercise its social control so that Transparency is effective in its totality. Transparency, as it is, imposes on the public authority the duty to take an active conduct to disclose the totality of the administrative activity of the State, in this way, there is social control, which can be understood as citizen participation in public management, supervision, monitoring and control of Public Administration actions. As can be seen, this relationship is extremely necessary because it reflects the partnership that should exist between the State and the Citizen, as a way of guaranteeing rights. As a methodological resource for this work, we used bibliographical research, whose objective is to search from reliable sources, bibliographic material sufficient to structure the ideas of the text, with quotations from authors, scholars and researchers in the area under discussion. In addition, it was intended with the same, to raise awareness about the importance of these three democratic tools that involve in a single context, the citizen and the State.