Discussion ethics and principies of public administration: the lying public administrator and administrative improbity

Ética da discussão e princípios da administração pública: o administrador público mentiroso e a improbidade administrativa

Abstract

This paper has as its main theme the political practice of spreading fake news by political agents in contemporary Brazil and the possible application of the law of administrative improbity for violation of the principie of public trust (bana fides) in Public Administration. Thus, it is possib le to connect with the principie of administrative trust to substantiate the duty of the administrator to speak the truth. The problem that drives this work is: is it possible to interpret the Federal Constitution and the Law of Administrative lmprobity as tutors of an ethical duty to speak the truth extracted from the principie of the bona fides and how can the ethics of discussion contribute to this interpretation? The hypothesis is that yes, there is an incidence of the law of administrative improbity to the lying public agent. To confirm the hypothesis, it will be necessary to carry out three objectives, namely: to connect the ethics of the discussion with the fakes news; link this construction to the Public Administration's principie of good faith; finally, to justify the application of the law of administrative improbity to the agent who violates the duty in good faith by spreading fake news. The hypothetical deductive method will be used, since the hypothesis of applicability of the administrative improbity law will be tested argumentatively.