O fomento público sob a ótica republicana: participação, accountability e desenvolvimento

Abstract

The present work aims to redeem the importance of republican political philosophy to Brazil’s public law. The approach goes through analyzing the close contact to Republican tradition throughout Brazil’s history, which constitutes an assumption for adopting it as a regulatory ideal today. Besides, a lot of political, social, and economic issues striking Brazil nowadays can be tackled under Republican tradition, making its adoption not only possible, but also desirable. Once Republicanism is adopted as a goal for constitutional interpretation, we can analyze public grants in new lights. We regard public grant’s governance as the antithesis of Republican ideal since it operates under crony capitalism practices – public and private power reinforcing themselves mutually. At last, the Republican inflow will assist the evaluation of public grants under legality criteria by means of an interinstitutional assessment divided in two moments – ex ante control and ex post control -, as well as the drafting of operational standards in order to guide state agents accountable for the elaboration, approval and monitoring of public grants.