Access to information, digital politics and environmental sustainability in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2018.3.28376Keywords:
Right to information, Digital politics, SustainabilityAbstract
This paper presents the results of research on the field of proactive online transparency of environmental sustainability policies in Brazil. The available information on policies of that area on 284 web pages of the government portals of the 26 Brazilian states, the Federal District and the Ministry of the Environment was evaluated through content analysis formulated with support of the literature on public policy evaluation. The analysis indicates, as a result, that the web portals present from 14% to 47% of the information considered necessary for the complete characterization of a policy of the area, according to the theoretical-methodological context of the research. The interpretation of the results suggests an association of factors to be explored by future studies: the more agribusiness is developed at the macroregional level, the greater the performance of the macroregion in online transparency. The correspondence between government transparency and economic development has been explored by several studies and is brought by the results of the present research.
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