Integridade pública como estratégia de prevenção à corrupção em democracias fragilizadasuma abordagem sobre a realidade brasileira

Resumo

The thesis is structured on four central pillars: democracy, corruption, governance and public integrity. The investigation seeks to demonstrate the weakened Latin American democracies cannot prescind from elements which further public integrity, enhance ethical values and promote a real transformation of administrative models built under the notion of efficiency. The result of this research shows the investment in command and control mechanisms is not enough to reverse the degenerative situation that corruption produces in representative political systems. It is essential to find solutions that strengthen the preventive action of the State, in order to recover the trust of society and the credibility of the public power. Only in recent decades the focus on combating corruption started to consider broader forms of action, not limited to identifying its causes and consequences and proposing repressive normative measures. The phenomenon is increasingly seen as a social problem associated with different forms of inequality. From this perspective, the investigation states that low-quality democracies, lacking adequate controls and preventive measures, are favorable environments for the installation of corrupt power structures, affecting their elementary bases. Based on the fact corruption has deeper structural causes, it is crucial to consider combined measures of repression and prevention favors other knowledge fields. Thus, it is argued that corruption should not be considered cause or consequence of low economic growth, or even of low democratic quality, but as a symptom of the dysfunctionality of political, legal and administrative systems. Therefore, considering the patent's lack of political interest to fight corruption, in social contexts characterized by ethical and moral deviations, the investigation highlights the relevance of structural reforms that provide gradual changes in behavior, especially the establishment of management systems based on administrative ethics, which contributes to the consolidation of a new culture of public integrity.