Governança regulatória nas agências reguladoras estaduais de saneamento básico

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Danielle Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/63014
• topic: Regulação; Governança pública; Agências Regulatórias

The concepts and practices of governance has been widely studied in the business world and academia in order to analyze the relationships between organizations and their stakeholders. Similarly, conflicts of interest and problems arising from them, show that governance issues are ambience in the public sector, especially in light of the social demand for results and effectiveness of services provided by public organizations. The present study aims to examine aspects of regulatory governance of state regulatory agencies sanitation in Brazil under the perspective of autonomy, transparency and accountability, and also identify the tools implemented to support the regulatory governance in these institutions. After reviewing the literature that permeates the themes of governance, public sector governance and regulatory governance, the quantitative study uses primary data obtained through an applied in the population of 16 state regulatory agencies sanitation listed by survey Programa de Fortalecimento da Capacidade Institucional para a Gestão em Regulação (PROREG) and the Associação Brasileira das Agências de Regulação (ABAR). The instrument used was a questionnaire based on the work of Andres et al. (2007) who explored the regulatory governance of regulatory agencies in the electricity sector in 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The results showed what are the main aspects and practices adopted by state regulatory agencies toward regulatory governance, the most obvious: the formalization of the autonomy of the agencies; quarantine of leaders and their fixed and renewable mandates; conducting public hearings and consultations; decisionmaking by collegiate and publishing agency decisions. At the other extreme, the practices that were less consolidated were: the freedom to determine its administrative structure; the publication of audits of their accounts; the preparation and dissemination of reports for management or management; the absence of a corporate strategy and standards for disciplining its own ethical issues and conduct and the lack and / or inefficiency of advisory boards.