Communication and legal instruments in the municipal public administration

• Main Authors: Marcela Guimarães e Silva, Tiago Costa Martins
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade da Beira Interior 2013-06-01
• Series: Estudos em Comunicação
• Subjects: Publicity; Legality; Towns
• Online Access: http://www.ec.ubi.pt/ec/13/pdf/EC13-2013Junho-11.pdf

The use of communication has resulted in different theoretical interpretations and practical actions in the Brazilian public administration. Three elements can be mentioned: conceptual, toward to ‘how it might be understood’; practical, or how the governmental communication is carried out; and legal, in the order of legal instruments centralized in the principle of publicity. The background of this research is in the relation of these elements. Through the jurisdictional analysis from the Court of Auditors from Rio Grande do Sul State (TCE-RS), it is associated the practice and the legality to understand what are the conflicts in the use of communication in gaucho towns. The results point to specific and repetitive pathologies in the execution of communication what need to be reviewed to reduce the existing hiatus between concept, practice and legality.