A configuração dos indicadores culturais por meio do “Controle Social” do Tribunal de Contas do Estado – RS

Abstract

The recognition of public policies as an action, or lack thereof, rationally elaborated to solve a public issue distinguishes the growing necessity of monitoring, control and evaluation. In this manner, the monitoring of the cultural public policies is through societies control of public actions with “Social Control” as a tool that generates a flow of communication enabling a configuration of the cultural indicators. In this perspective, the matters that lead to this problem are: a) a diversity in terms of creation and cultural production in the country; b) the states’ role in formulating public policies and arrangement of the development arising from cultural activities and; c) a disclosure of the data referring to the implemented public policies. Thus, the question that guides the work was "How are the cultural indicators configured based on data provided by the municipal administration through an open flow of communication with the interface as 'Social Control' of the State Audit Court?” This juncture, objectifies a reflection of the configuration of the cultural indicators from the public flow of communication understood by the data available in the "Social Control" for the management of municipalities. To this end, it is a presentation to the concept of public communication, the history of the State Court of Auditors (TCE-RS) and the "Social Control", finally, by the concept of social and cultural indicators. Subsequently, a development analysis from the primary data to the cultural indicators. For such methodologically literature searches, documentas were conducted and lastly applied a methodological exercise of building cultural indicators. Resulted then, on the proposition of modeling the indicators that contemplate the spending per capta in culture; incidence of spending on culture in CPF / CNPJ; average spending on culture by time period and; percentage in culture in reference to total expenditure. Conclusively, the "Social Control" acts as an interface, a public communication tool between the data provided by the municipal administration in the TCE-RS and the citizen. In which it enables the configuration of cultural indicators, combining the monitoring, evaluation and construction of public policies.