Transparency of the municipal public management: a study from the homepages of the large Brazilian municipalities/Transparencia da gestao publica municipal: um estudo a partir dos portais eletronicos dos maiores municipios brasileiros

• Published in: Revista de administração pública (Rio de Janeiro) 2012-01, Vol.46 (1), p.153
• Main Authors: Cruz, Claudia Ferreira, Ferreira, Araceli Cristina de Sousa, da Silva, Lino Ma, Macedo, Marcelo Alvaro da Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• ISSN: 0034-7612

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. KEY WORDS: transparency; public management; homepages; municipalities. 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 (ITGPM), 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. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: transparencia; gestao publica; portais eletronicos; municipios.