Políticas públicas do poder judiciário: uma avaliação dos procedimentos avaliatórios de programas de acesso à justiça do Tribunal de Justiça do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

This research approached the evaluation of public policy evaluation procedures developed by the Court of Justice of the State of Rio Grande do Norte (TJRN), more specifically thosed aimed at promoting access to justice. Its objective was to verify at what level of quality the Potiguar Court, between 2020 and 2024, evaluated procedures regarding the Justiça na Praça and Justiça e Escola programs. To achieve this, the study was organized into two dimensions: a theoretical and an empirical one. In the first, issues of the modern State, democracy, the role of the Judiciary and the conceptions of public policies, evaluation and meta-evaluation of public policies were addressed. In the second, field research was conducted to evaluate the evaluation procedures of the programs regarding access to justice at TJRN, based on the articulation of a qualitative and quantitative approach, achieved through the development of a specific evaluation method, created based on the analytical models developed by Davidson (2005) and Draibe (1997). In the end, it was possible to conclude that the evaluation procedures of Justiça na Praça and Justiça e Escola are performed with a reasonable level of quality, with aspects related to usefulness, dissemination, conduct and credibility that can be improved.