A participação popular na administração pública como instrumento de controle social e efetivação da cidadania.

Abstract

Since the enactment of the Federal Constitution of 1988, Brazil has adopted the Democratic State of Law, establishing the dignity of the human person as the center of the legal system. In this sense, the 1988 constitutional text sought to privilege citizenship and popular sovereignty, bringing some instruments of exercise of popular participation in democracy. The Constitution of 1988 established the guidelines for the creation of a participatory democracy, in which the citizen must have an active voice in decision-making by the Public Administration. However, the country does not yet have a participatory culture of citizens, due to the inertia of public representatives in listening to social aspirations and the lack of interest of the population in taking initiatives to realize their rights. Apart from this, the lack of transparency in the acts of the Public Administration hinders the full exercise of citizenship, hindering the recognition of rights and favoring corruption. It is therefore possible that a more transparent Public Administration allows the approximation between the people and their representatives, also giving greater effectiveness to the popular participation in the scope of the administrative activity. Popular participation, from this perspective, is fundamental for monitoring the actions of managers and for the effectiveness of public policies. Under this approach, this paper aims to expose the importance of popular participation in Public Administration, considering that this is an important tool for social control and effective citizenship. For this, the bibliographic research was adopted as a methodological source, constructing the theoretical referential from doctrinal positions and data collection in articles and electronic sites