Parceria para Governo Aberto e Relações Internacionais: oportunidades e desafios

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Caroline Burle dos Santos [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Relações internacionais; Sociedade civil; Governança; Comunicação na política; International relations
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/121891

This dissertation proposes an investigation to identify opportunities and challenges of Open Government Partnership (OGP) from the perspective of International Relations. By analyzing the concept of open government, it seeks to understand how it materializes in the case of OGP. To this end, it is studied the context of its creation in the current international conjunction, how important this juncture and the contribution of the study on open government for international relations, as well as the participation of Brazil since its incorporation, comparing it with Mexico – another pioneer in the creation of the Partnership. The research was based on the consideration that nation-states were forced to reorganize in light of the changes arising from globalization, interdependence and technological innovations in the media, with the positive speech on the establishment of a open government – which is based on democracy, the use of new technologies and citizen participation – began to attract governments and institutions. The governments that joined the OGP may have seen the possibility to show results in a more agile way, possibly with the help of nongovernmental organizations, by means of what he called citizen participation. The study also sought to ascertain to what extent the OGP can be seen as an initiative promoted by the U.S. government to explore the exercise of soft power. Regarding transparency and social control, OGP can serve to legitimize the governmental actions towards society. The hypotheses raised could be analyzed on the occasion of the analysis based on primary and secondary sources and discussions submitted by different authors, such as the documents made available by governments, academics, by policymakers and the original information provided by the interviewees in this research. Based on theories of Interdependence, Regimes and Governance, it was possible to comprehend the interaction of the concept of ...