El principio de la moralidad administrativa en Colombia y Brasil : una mirada desde los delitos contra la administración pública.

Abstract

The present article offers a compared vision on morality as a principle basis in the felonies against public administration, in two Latin-American countries taken as referents; with this in mind, this study’s general objective is to analyze the felonies against public administration in Colombia and Brazil, from the administrative morality principle’s perspective. Under this, it was observed that the morality, by its definition, can be subjective when applied by the judicial or administrative operator, in both countries. In Colombia as well as in Brazil, administrative morality is developed in triads that delimit it, being these components for the former country righteousness, honesty and loyalty, and for the latter, probity, seemliness and good faith; however, there is not an academic, legal and jurisprudential development significant enough on these components. Felonies against public administration are related with the morality principle, because the commission of them can be seen as the result of the infringement of at least one of the components of administrative morality.