Conflito de interesse na administração pública: Estudo de caso na Prefeitura Municipal de Cachoeirinha-RS

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to identify the conflicts of interest in the Public Administration, as well as to recognize the awareness of these conflicts by theirs characters. We recurred to the Agency Theory as the basis of our analysis. In the public area, the studies turned to this theme are limited. Through an interview (Annex A) done with the Mayor, vice-mayor, Secretaries and Subsecretaries, we could see that the Secretary of Health presents more complexity, because of that, it is the best place to develop our research. We developed a case study in the city of Cachoeirinha RS, adopting the multivariate analysis in order to obtain the results of the applied questionnaires. From a qualitative research, we observed the different behaviors of the public employees of that city, we could also show that the personal interests, for many times, exceed the public ones, becoming visible the conflict of interest between the public manager and the employee.