Repercussões da gestão pública na crise de representatividade

Abstract

Western democracies, despite the institutional consolidation of their political regimes, cross serious problem that appears with increasing strength: the crisis of the representative system. The diffuse and widespread perception of affected populations is that the state and its institutions do not exist due to the realization of their desires , which are the real holders of power and whose will should pursue. Due to this contemporary problem, which ultimately undermine the very foundation of democracy (the exercise of power by the people), the Constitution of the Brazilian Republic 1988 has predicted various forms of popular participation in decisionmaking bodies of public administration, since its enactment . It is known, however, that these instruments were insufficient, in that it failed to mobilize Brazilian society to enter public offices and assist administrators in making the decisions that were intended to better the public interest. In this context, besides the awareness that public bodies can not be " black boxes", but must be transparent and permeable to the manifestations of recipients of services and actions, new participatory tools have been implemented, such as the Ombudsman and Public Hearings, but not with the same intensity or evenly among the various levels of the federation. However, due to the short time during which these administrative policies have been implemented, as well as the lack of massification of their use, they have not been able to reverse the severe crisis in confidence in relation to Brazilian social institutions belonging to the Administration public , as demonstrated by research released by IBOPE. It has been shown , in this line, the ineffectiveness of purely normative predictions, albeit with constitutional basis. It has been shown prevailing practices.