Avaliação da transparência pública nos portais dos municípios mais populosos do Estado do Pernambuco.

Abstract

The transparency, as a prerequisite for democracy, should guide the whole activity of the Public Administration, that is, the public manager, when acting, must respect the principle of publicity, which is established in art. 37, caput, of the Federal Constitution. Accordingly, in line with the Transparency Law, municipal portals must comply with a number of requirements that relate to the effectiveness of transparency in dealing with public affairs. In this approach, the present study aimed to evaluate public transparency in the portals of the most populous municipalities in the state of Pernambuco in the years 2014 to 2016. For that, an exploratory-descriptive, bibliographical and quantitative research was done. Thus, the research sample, intentional and non-probabilistic, is composed of the most populous municipalities of the State of Pernambuco. In addition, data collection was elaborated from the study developed by Bodart, Torres e Silva (2015) in accordance with Law No. 11,527, of November 18, 2011, observing indicators of accessibility, usability and transparency. In this way, the municipal public sites of 11 cities in Pernambuco were evaluated and ranked. It was finally realized that the sites of the entities Governmental organizations do not obey the regulations regarding transparency in a comprehensive way, which prevents the full exercise of democracy and citizenship, understood as the participation of citizens in public management