Controle externo e controle social : estudo de elementos de interação para a consolidação da democracia

Abstract

This work intends to discuss about the external control and social control of public administration and its interaction elements in the perspective of consolidating democracy. The study aims to analyze the external control under the responsibility of TCU, in the function of appraiser performance shares, government programs and policies, and social control, as a participant in the inspection of the public thing, and to identify possible elements of interaction between them, within the current context of the brazilian State, understanding that this joint action the Brazilian democracy gets stronger. The research is qualitative in nature, accompanied with quantitative data, and documentary type. The empirical basis is a sample of evaluation reports prepared by TCU, in health, in the years 2009 and 2010. The method chosen for this research is the critical-dialectical, which does not gets satisfied with the appearance or the shallowness of the phenomenon, but seeks to reveal its essence. The results indicate a low level of interaction between the external control over TCU and bodies representing civil society. Evaluations of public policies carried out by TCU is a feedback process essentially internal public administration, being initiated, developed and distributed by and for officials and public managers.