Open AccessTransparency in Municipalities in the Southern Region of Brazil
Author(s) -
Alexandre Costa Quintana,
Flávia Verônica Silva Jacques,
Clea Beatriz Macagnan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of public administration and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2161-7104
DOI - 10.5296/jpag.v6i3.9858
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , gross domestic product , revenue , business , population , government (linguistics) , statistical analysis , tax revenue , public economics , economics , accounting , economic growth , statistics , political science , demography , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , law
Transparency in government actions strengthens the relationship between government and society. The goal of the present study was to ascertain the level of transparency of administrative information in the south of Brazil. This descriptive study, which employed statistical methodology, found a correlation between the presence of examined indicators and municipal gross domestic product (GDP). It also revealed that population; GDP and tax revenues are variables that, if jointly analyzed, can be used to aggregate municipalities that display similar behavior in terms of transparency.