Análise da relação da transparência pública dos municípios do Rio Grande do Norte com o desempenho do IEGM no ano de 2018

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the relationship between public transparency and the performance of the Municipal Management Effectiveness Index (IEGM) of the municipalities of the State of Rio Grande do Norte in the period of 2018. In order to meet this purpose, the database used was the reports of the Court of Accounts of the State of Rio Grande do Norte (TCE-RN) related to the ransparency index and the IEGM of the municipalities in the state. As for the methodology, the present research is classified as descriptive, with a secondary documentary and bibliographic procedure, with a quantitative approach, applying Pearson’s correlation analysis in the data collected for all 167 municipalities in the state. Among the results obtained, the study showed that about 42% of the municipalities in RN were classified as low level of adequacy in relation to transparency, indicating band C as the highlight of the variable transparency. As for the IEGM variable, the research showed the predominance of the C+ range , reflecting that 54% of the cities analyzed are in the adaptation phase. As the main conclusion, the results obtained demonstrated the existence of a strong positive correlation between the variables transparency and IEGM, with a coefficient p= 0.8856957 as result. The study also observed that when transparency is "highly effective", municipalities that have "effective" IEGM represent the largest portion (67%), while when transparency is "effective", the IEGM of municipalities classified as "in phase of adequacy" represent the largest portion (64%). It should be noted that the unavailability of reports concerning other periods of the variable of transparency of municipalities proved to be a limitation for this research, considering that more data would be needed to present more consistent results in relation to the correlation between the variables. As the main contribution, this study highlights the importance of public transparency, as well as the search to improve its application, by demonstrating its significantly positive effects in relation to the effectiveness index of the management of municipalities.