LACERDA, J. E. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9653340524274297; LACERDA, Jean Emmanuel Couto.
Resumo:
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