A inadequabilidade da forma de escolha dos membros dos Tribunais de Contas e seu impacto no controle externo da administração pública

Abstract

The main concern of this work is analyzing the method by which the members of the Courts of Auditors in Brazil are selected, and its reflexes in the overall performance of these as external control mechanisms over the public administration, as prescribed by article 71 of the Brazilian Constitution. To do so, the methodology applied will be the critical-dialectical bibliographical review, having the post-positivist movement as reference. The realization reached upon finishing this work is that the current selection method is inadequate, in light of the history of solely politically-oriented nominations, resulting, consequently, in political decisions, whereas they should be technical, and thus, inconsistent with the constitutional prescription.