Política de informação governamental: proposta de uma avaliação contra-hegemônica no âmbito da lei de acesso à informação aplicada ao município de Caucaia/CE

Abstract

We intend to outline the evaluation of the government's information policy, aligned with the legal and institutional framework of the Access to Information Act (LAI) in the three administrative areas. The problem is related to the following question: How to develop a proposal to evaluate the right to information and the democratic exercise of social control, considering the reality of national, state and municipal coverage of public information policies, in the context of the regulation of devices legal and political, economic and social contradictions of compliance with the legal regulation, aiming at inserting the most excluded layers of civil society? As a general objective, we evaluate the government's information policy emphasizing hegemonic and anti-hegemonic aspects, contemplating the possibilities and limits of its compliance that will aggregate the various sectors of civil society, aiming at the construction of a proposal of evaluation against hegemonic LAI applied to the municipality of Caucaia/CE. Thus, we analyze the governmental positions that led to the implementation of control of public information and, later, a policy of access to Brazilian information, relating the legal regulations in each historical period; dialogue with contemporary theories of state openness, emphasizing the participation of society in the process of democratization of government actions, in the recognition of civil society rights supported by three regulatory frameworks of public access to information policy: the Federal Constitution of 1988, the Law 8.159/91 and Law 12.527/11; we identify and discuss the elements that underpin the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic conceptions that guide LAI. The methodology emphasizes our theoretical and pragmatic assumptions through the hermeneutic understanding of the interpretation of text and context fusion according to Far, and then presents a methodological design of evaluation inspired by Gussi (2017). Empirically, we used the situational diagnosis in the districts of Catuana and Sítios Novos, localities in situations of social risk linked to the municipality of Caucaia / CE, on the analytical perspective of Jannuzzi (2011) and follow an ethnographic conception inspired by Gonçalves (2008). The results are discussed as a category of analysis, where the qualitative indicators are evidenced through the triangulation of methods, supported by Minayo (2006).