Jurimetria aplicada à lei de improbidade administrativa como instrumento para a governança pública e o desenvolvimento municipal

Abstract

Law nº 8.429/1992, amended on October 26, 2021, by Law nº 14.230, is one of the principal instruments of the Brazilian legal order that protects probity in the organization of the State and in the exercise of its functions. Furthermore, it seeks to ensure the integrity of public and social assets. Any setbacks in this legislation directly impact the reduction of measures provided for in the legal system to combat corruption. Corruption, in turn, constitutes a significant obstacle to the improvement of public governance, as it causes barriers to the monitoring of Public Administration performance, which fails to accurately evaluate its results and ensure faithful transparency and accountability, and interferes with the accountability of agents with decision­making power. This practice also impairs municipal development, since the mismanagement of public resources leads to the deterioration of ongoing public policies. Given this scenario, the application of scientific methodologies capable of describing the legal reality gains relevance. Jurimetrics emerges in this context as the technique that allows the use of statistical methods in Law, offering support for the actions and decisions of policymakers and others involved in legal controversies. Although widely applied in various countries and available in the Brazilian private sector, especially in law firms, its use in Public Administration is still limited. Despite the introductory efforts of the National Council of Justice and other public organizations, it is still necessary to disseminate the culture of collecting, storing, and studying data useful to the effectiveness of the public policy under analysis. For this reason, the present research aims to disseminate Jurimetrics as a technique that assists the governance of Paraná’s public organizations and supports the development of indicators on municipal development. To establish which data parameters are adequate for these studies, it is suggested to apply descriptive statistics methods to the data produced by the filing of public civil actions for administrative improbity. As a product, an interactive dashboard was developed, designed to extract inferences from the selected and processed metadata, with the purpose of describing, in a practical way, how the Administrative Improbity Law is applied in the Paraná judicial system.