Podem as novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação auxiliar na consolidação das democracias? Um estudo sobre a informatização dos órgãos legislativos na América do Sul

Abstract

The objective of this article is to present the results of our research about the informatization of the legislative bodies in the South America. This general objective is divided in two specific objectives: a) To present a proposal of mensurement of the degree of informatization of these parliamentary agencies, evaluating how much the parliaments of these countries had advanced in this process; b) To elaborate and to apply metodological instruments for the analysis of data, as well as for the evaluation of the analytical meaning of that informations, and on its impact in the functioning of the democratic institutions of Latin America in general, and the South America in particular, especially in the control of the representatives for the citizens.