A look at the transparency law in Chile: aspects the influenced its achievement at municipal level

Abstract

This paper seeks to describe the level of compliance with the Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information (TA) at the local level in the Region of La Araucanía (Chile) five years after the entry into force. TA establishes the guidelines for the procedures to access, content and decisions of the civil service through what is called, active transparency. Regarding the organs of the central government, regional governments and universities has been a substantial progress in the TA. However the results at municipal level, indicate that human capital and the process management are the variables that affect the performance of TA.

Keywords

• transparencia, información pública, gobierno local