Conselheiros do Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Mato Grosso (1990-2010) : nomeações, atuações e o campo político

Abstract

The Court of Audit of Mato Grosso was created in 1953, having as functions the accounting, financial, budgetary, operational and patrimonial oversight of the State. In order to carry out all these tasks, the Court of Auditors would, in recent years, have seven board members. But who are these counselors, after all? In what way do they help to build the history of Mato Grosso's political life? This work, in this way, aims to problematize the performance of the Counselors of the Court of Audit of Mato Grosso, during the period 1990-2010 - crucial moment, which precedes and permeates the promulgation of the Fiscal Responsibility Law (2000), which would require more rigorous in the actions of the Audit Courts. Several are the theoretical-methodological readings and references that such a work presupposes. Among them, important concepts such as the field, habitus, doxa, illusio and symbolic capital of Pierre Bourdieu, as well as the notions of politics and sottogoverno, of Norberto Bobbio, and of prosopography can be emphasized. Equally relevant are Raymundo Faoro and Max Weber's interpretations of the bureaucracy theory, which is the basis for the understanding of Brazilian political institutions in which board members are involved. Thus, through the historical analysis of the appointments and actions of the Counselors of the Court of Audit of Mato Grosso (1990-2010), it is hoped to contribute to the deeper knowledge of the history of the state in the last decades.