Transparência na gestão pública municipal: a opinião de representantes da sociedade em relação à Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI) nos municípios do Sudeste do Pará (Rondon do Pará, Marabá, Redenção e Parauapebas)

Abstract

This research sought to analyze the transparency on municipal public management considering the opinion of the representatives of the organized civil society from Rondon do Pará, Redenção, Marabá and Parauapebas regarding the Law of Access to Information (LAI). The current work focused on analyzing the perception of organizations, in the person of their representatives, such as: City Halls, Public Ministry, Commercial Association, University, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Residents Associations in the municipalities where the research was carried out. The publishing of Law 12.527/2011 introduced a new way to handle public information, by establishing the rules to its access. Therefore, in this process of regulation to the access of information it is important to comprehend all the factors that permeate that transformation, to analyze the perception of the population regarding this law, what is the opinion formation that society is taking from this process. To serve this purpose, the methodology classified as exploratory and descriptive utilized the field research as a form to collect data on a sample of 39 questionnaires that were applied to the most relevant social actors of the participant cities. The data processing utilized descriptive statistics and a set of statistical techniques. The results made it possible to reveal aspects such as: the profiles of the respondents; the knowledge of the representatives about LAI, as well as their access to the portals of transparency of the cities; it demonstrated information about the holding of public hearings; the results allowed to show evidence of the degree of agreement and disagreement of the representatives of the organized civil society regarding the general aspects of the Law of Access. Finally, there are proposed suggestions for the operationalization of future research on opinions regarding the Law of Access to Information, Law 12.527/2011.