Transparência: uma agenda da sociedade ou de governo? A difusão do acesso à informação no Brasil e no México.

• Autor(a) principal: Macedo, Vanessa Rodrigues de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12483
• topic: Transparency; Accountability; Participation; Brazil; Mexico; Transparência; Accountability; Participação; Brasil; Mexico; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL

This dissertation deals with the diffusion of transparency in Brazil and Mexico, emphasizing its different trajectories and the impacts of these differences on public management, social participation and accountability. The objective is to analyze the process of diffusion of transparency, understanding how the theme first reaches the public agenda at the national level and, therefore, begins to be disseminated by the government bodies from the implementation of a set of norms, laws and policies until it reaches the status of a system of transparency and impacts on the political system, more specifically on public management, social participation and accountability. The framework adopted was based on theories of diffusion and socialization of norms, policies and ideas, as well as specific theories about the diffusion of transparency. The thesis uses a historical-comparative approach that considers both the influence of external variables and the specificities of each case arising from the process of transparency localization, that is, how the assimilation of the concept through the local context has provoked different agendas of transparency in each territory. The cases analyzed in both countries are 1) the main law on right to information (FOI Law) and 2) the largest open government transparency and open government initiative (OGP), launched in 2012. The proposal was to reconstruct these processes and to identify the variables that explain the development of these initiatives as well as their unfoldings through an explanation that enhances the construction of transversal coalitions between national and international actors from different spheres. Considering that the diffusion of transparency is a process to be reconstructed through narratives, this dissertation defined three sequential phases for its development: 1) Insertion of the topic of transparency into the national agenda and its internalization; 2) Institutionalization of transparency through the publication of the FOI Law; 3) Promotion of impacts on the political system (specifically on public management, social participation and accountability). This dissertation suggests the hypothesis that the way in which transparency is internalized in each country installs a path dependency that conditions its process of institutionalization, but also produces unanticipated consequences capable of changing the established conditions. In this sense, the reconstruction of the internalization process in each country is fundamental to understand transparency diffusion and its impacts. The results suggest that the main impacts of the institutionalization of transparency in Mexico are related to public management and social participation, while in Brazil the greatest effects occur in public management. The difference between the two countries is related to the way the issue is inserted and is located in the agendas of each country and to the path dependency that is installed from this moment.