Transparência pública dos conselhos municipais dos direitos da criança e do adolescente (CMDCA)

Abstract

The active and direct participation of the citizen through the institutional apparatus contributes to the improvement of the quality of the service, becoming a strategy that allows the mutual benefit between State and society, promoting democratic values and economic efficiency for the government. A relevant tool that allows the active participation of citizens in public management are the county councils. In view of this, the research aimed to analyze the level of transparency of information about public management disclosed on the portals of the Conselho Municipal da Criança e do Adolecente (CMDCA). Forty large cities throughout Brazil were analyzed, relating the results to socioeconomic characteristics and demographic indicators of the cities (population, revenue collected per capita, tax revenue collected per capita, dependence on transfers, GDP per capita and level of transparency of the Escala Brasil Transparente). Through a descriptive analysis, the level of transparency of the portals was measured from a list of analysis questions built based on the information available on the councils' portals. In the results presented, it was found that the cities did not fully disclose information about county public management. Also, in general, the cities that had the highest levels of transparency for the analyzed items had the highest levels of socioeconomic demographic indicators, with the exception of the demographic variable population size. This association was expected since better socioeconomic conditions tend to imply a higher level of public transparency on the part of counties, as evidenced in previous studies.