A auditoria como campo etnográfico: governança e acordos privados no Brasil

Abstract

This study is the product of a PhD research developed through a collaboration agreement for thesis’ “cotutela” (co-supervision) between the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil). The purpose of this study was to immerse in

the routine of the governance institutions having as an investigative field the direct and con- tracted management of public health units in a federal state in Brazil where the actions of

public agents - intertwined in the dynamics of power built and maintained by governmental and political elites - were problematized. They were analyzed in the light of patrimonialism, the theory of gift, the theorization about the politics time and the politics that penetrates the time of governing. The investigation field had as methodological perspective the participative observation during the period of two years of the daily environment of the management of the HGD Hospital and the follow-up and inspection of contracts sector of DAFH management,

which required a look directed to the normative approach that endows the administrative rou- tine of formal rules, and another look directed to informal and/or parallel conducts (informed

by the politics) that cross the governmental routine imposing its rules. This double view was a necessary condition to learn how governmental power works from within the movement of its elites. The results of the study show the plots that lead to the appropriation of the public

sector for private purposes and the conclusive analyses affirm that patrimonialism (as a prac- tice of power) is still present in the way of governing institutions and conducting politics in

Brazil.