Brazil has a framework of infra-constitutional laws governing public transparency for all federal entities. It is a collection that expresses one of the most advanced and evolved legal instruments to implement and requires transparency of public administration in the world today.
With the enactment of Ordinary Law 12,527/11, Brazil became the country 89 ° to rely on such kind of legislation. Thus becomes part of the list of countries that seeks to effectively treat the information as a public good, and secrecy the exception to the rule of transparency.
However it is a fact that this Law requires a costly preparation by the government to implement it fully, through complete websites and updated daily, as well as provide conditions for citizens to seek the desired information and not informed at first by the administrations - the passive transparency. The latter operationalizing easily accessible services to citizens, either by attendance means (Citizen Information Service - CIS) or electronically (e-CIS).
Also implies an investment of capital - human and technological - for the proper enforcement of legislation on the part of subnational entities, as well as change in internal administrative routine, in order not only to meet the deadlines of the demands based on transparency passive but also in compliance with all items required in the active transparency.
We discuss in our paper the implications, constraints and results of this public policy in 4,957 municipalities that have up to 50 thousand inhabitants, in all states of Brazil, understanding that they represent 89% of the national municipalities and enjoy typical structural constraints of small municipalities.
In August 2015, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released a survey known as the MUNIC, which is applied in all national municipalities, raising socio-economic-cultural data.
Based on this research, as well as a sample survey conducted by the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), held in 465 small Brazilian municipalities (up to 50 thousand inhabitants), perform a factor analysis, reducing multiple indicators raised by MUNIC on a few factors, such as cultural, socio-economic, political and demographic and after run a multiple regression and identify the pattern of municipalities.
After that, analyses individual outliers, concluding about what type of exceptional affects, such as performances by local institutions, enforcement played by local prosecutors, acting mayors associations, courts etc.
Thus, it is expected to conclude on the pattern of abiding municipalities of transparency profile and demonstrate the importance of institutions for the adequacy municipalities out of such standards to those set by the legislature.
