The Social Observatory of Brazil and the organizational challenges of social accountability

• Autor(a) principal: De Bona, Rodrigo da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Boeira, Sérgio Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/73946
• topic: Accountability; organizational identity; social representations; complexity; co-production of public good.; Rendición de cuentas; identidad organizacional; representaciones sociales; complejidad; coproducción del bien público.; Accountability; identidade organizacional; representações sociais; complexidade; coprodução do bem público.

This case study aims at interpreting the social representations that characterize the Social Observatory of Brazil, its identity, organizational challenges and perspectives, under the coordination of Rede OSB of social accountability. To legitimize its performance, the organization enables partnerships and adopts a stance of political-party exemption, preservation of the public agent’s image, professionalization and standardization of procedures. Its main challenges and / or perspectives can be better understood considering its ambiguities and complementarities, that is, in the light of complex thinking, in the approach adopted here. For this analysis, the social representations were grouped according to three aspects that typify the engagement in social accountability: strategy, organization and context. The social representation of denial of political parties makes complex the long-term construction of lasting bridges between Society and State for the co-production of the public good, and shows the difficulty of the organized Society itself to build bridges.