Lino Martins da Silva

Transparência da gestão pública municipal: um estudo a partir dos portais eletrônicos dos maiores municípios brasileiros

Portuguese Abstract: Neste estudo buscou-se verificar o nivel de transparencia das informacoes acerca da gestao publica divulgadas nos portais eletronicos de 96 municipios incluidos entre os 100 mais populosos do Brasil e quais caracteristicas e indicadores socioeconomicos dos municipios podem contribuir para explicar o nivel de transparencia observado. O nivel de transparencia da gestao publica foi verificado a partir de um modelo de investigacao denominado Indice de Transparencia da Gestao Publica Municipal (ITGP-M), construido com base em codigos internacionais de boas praticas de transparencia e governanca, na legislacao brasileira aplicavel e nas experiencias de pesquisas anteriores de natureza semelhante realizadas no Brasil e no exterior. As evidencias empiricas apontam para baixos niveis de transparencia, considerados incompativeis com o nivel de desenvolvimento socioeconomico dos municipios. Alem disso, pode-se concluir que, no geral, existe associacao entre as condicoes socioeconomicas dos municipios e os niveis de transparencia na divulgacao de informacoes acerca da gestao publica observados nos sites dos grandes municipios brasileiros que compoem a amostra desse estudo.English Abstract: This study attempts to check the transparency level of information in public administration published in the homepages of 96 municipalities included among the 100 most populous in Brazil and what characteristics and socioeconomic indicators of the municipalities can contribute to explain the level of transparency observed. The level of transparency in public administration was established from a research model called Transparency Index Municipal Public Management (ITGP-M) constructed based on international codes of good governance and transparency, the Brazilian legislation and the experiences of previous studies of similar nature conducted in Brazil and abroad. The empirical evidence point to low levels of transparency, incompatible with the level of socioeconomic development of municipalities. Moreover, we can conclude that, overall, there is an association between the socioeconomic conditions of the municipalities and the levels of transparency in the disclosure of information about public administration observed in sites of large municipalities as in this study.