Municipal Public Governance: proposition for the application of a synthetic index

Abstract

In the current political, economic and social context, the relationship established between State and Society has been analyzed based on the use of governance concepts and approaches, which refers to the State's ability to implement policies aimed at meeting the demands of society. Due to the contribution attributed to governance for municipal management, the need for its evaluation is denoted, thus, studies are necessary to discuss the structuring of indicators and indexes to analyze the forms of evaluation of public governance applied to municipalities. In view of this, the general objective of this work is to propose a synthetic index to evaluate the governance applied in the municipal scope based on the principles of public governance. This is a theoretical article of exploratory nature carried out through an integrative literature review. Therefore, it is possible to state that in the literature of public governance there are elements that go beyond the conventionally studied governance, which is directed to the aspects of the manager's performance, with a strong focus on responsibility, accountability, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness, among others. These elements are also present, however, it was possible to observe that the analysis of governance goes beyond, encompassing broad aspects of social development dimensions that are linked to the population's access to essential services and minimum income to live. As a result, 18 indicators were identified to compose the 10 dimensions and the 5 pillars that are used to constitute the Municipal Public Governance Index-IGP-M.Collaborative Governance in networks: an analysis from an interpretativist perspective