Silveira, Raquel Maria da CostaSouza Júnior, Dionaldo Pereira de2026-01-092026-01-092025-08-29SOUZA JÚNIOR, Dionaldo Pereira de. As capacidades estatais para a promoção da transparência pública: um estudo nos municípios da Região Metropolitana Funcional de Natal. Orientadora: Dra. Raquel Maria da Costa Silveira. 2025. 165f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos Urbanos e Regionais) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2025.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/67599In 2011, Brazil took an important step toward public transparency with the enactment of Federal Law No. 12,527. This law, which regulates the right to information provided for in the 1988 Federal Constitution, establishes that public agencies at all levels of government must proactively disclose information of collective or general interest as a tool for social control. The objective of the research was to understand the state's capacities for managing public transparency in municipalities within the Natal Metropolitan Functional Region, based on the state's capacity in its technicalbureaucratic dimension, to comply with the guidelines of Law 12,527/2011. Thus, the following question arises: how is the technical-bureaucratic dimension of state capacities characterized in the management of public transparency in the municipalities of the Natal Metropolitan Functional Region? This work is characterized as a qualitative study, based on multiple case studies that will present an exploratory descriptive approach. To this end, bibliographic and documentary research was carried out, as well as the application of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with civil servants and managers responsible for transparency in the municipalities of Natal, Parnamirim, Macaíba, São Gonçalo do Amarante and Extremoz. The results indicate that, although there are initiatives aimed at compliance with legislation, institutional weaknesses persist that limit the consolidation of transparency as public policy. A lack of intersectoral coordination, absence of monitoring strategies, dependence on precarious links, and gaps in the technical training of teams were observed. Active transparency is more structured in municipalities with greater administrative capacity, while passive transparency still faces obstacles in terms of response and organization of flows. It is concluded that the effectiveness of public transparency depends directly on the presence of technical and bureaucratic capacities, with an emphasis on qualified human resources, stable organizational arrangements, and evidence-based management practices.pt-BRAcesso AbertoTransparência públicaLei de Acesso à InformaçãoCapacidades estataismasterThesisCIENCIAS HUMANAS