Revista de Direito Administrativo e Gestão Pública (Jun 2017)

PUBLIC CONTROL UNDER SUSPECTED: A REFLECTION ON THE STRUCTURE OF COURTS OF ACCOUNT AND THE EFFICIENCY OF EXTERNAL CONTROL ON THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

  • Maristella Barros Ferreira de Freitas,
  • Gladstone Avelino Britto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26668/IndexLawJournals/2526-0073/2017.v3i1.1877
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 83 – 104

Abstract

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The external control in Brazil is constitutional attribution of the legislative power, with the assistance of the Courts of Accounts and aims to oversee the public administration regarding legality, impersonality, morality, efficiency and others. This type of control presupposes a public management, in all areas, proba and efficient, that attends to the yearnings of the society. However, the current news about corruption investigations in the Brazilian public administration indicates that there are flaws in the external control carried out by the Audit Courts. For the relevance of the question, this article intends to investigate the causes of this inefficiency and the alternatives that present to correct it.

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