Transparência pública e a influência no controle social: uma pesquisa com agentes públicos

Abstract

The Democratic Rule of Law, set out in the 1988 Federal Constitution, institutionalized citizen participation in the political process and scope of public management. The objective of the research is to identify factors and prove the influence of the transparency of government information on social control and citizen participation of public agents in the state of Pará. An exploratory and descriptive survey was carried out with quantitative treatment and non-probability sampling for accessibility. The population consisted of 402 respondents. The data obtained through a questionnaire with 67 indicators were treated with quantitative techniques in the form of descriptive, correlational and multivariate statistics (exploratory factor analysis) and structural equation modeling in the form of partial least squares (PLS-SEM), to confirm the factors and test three research hypotheses. The first, whether the improvement of Transparency exerts a positive and significant influence on the evaluation of Social Control (H1), the second, whether the improvement of Transparency exerts a positive and significant influence on Citizen Participation (H2) and the third, whether Social Control exerts positive and significant influence on Citizen Participation (H3). It was found that transparency has a positive and significant influence on the perception of social control and citizen participation, however, the perception of social control is not capable of motivating citizen participation