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Transparency : the key to better governance?
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Transparency : the key to better governance?

Author: Christopher Hood; David Heald
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2006.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, 135.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This is a critical look at the now pervasive idea of achieving better governance through greater openness to outside scrutiny. It shows that transparency can conflict with other 'good governance'  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Hood; David Heald
ISBN: 0197263836 9780197263839
OCLC Number: 70173197
Description: xiii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. I: Transparency as a term, idea, and movement. Transparency in historical perspective / Christopher Hood ; Varieties of transparency / David Heald --
pt. II: Transparency as a problem and solution. Transparency as a human right / Patrick Birkinshaw ; Transparency as an instrumental value / David Heald ; Transparency and the ethics of communication / Onora O'Neill ; The more closely we are watched, the better we behave? / Andrea Prat --
pt. III: Transparency and institutional behaviour. Dashed expectations: governmental adaptation to transparency rules / Alasdair Roberts ; What hope for freedom of information in the UK? / Andrew McDonald ; Member-state budgetary transparency in the economic and monetary union / James D. Savage ; Does transparency make difference? The example of the European Council of Ministers / David Stasavage --
pt. IV: Transparency and information-age technology. Varieties of software and their implications for effective democratic government / L. Jean Camp ; Transparency and digital government / Helen Margetts --
pt. V: Conclusion. Beyond exchanging first principles? Some closing comments / Christopher Hood.
Series Title: Proceedings of the British Academy, 135.
Responsibility: edited by Christopher Hood & David Heald.
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...admirably argued, intellectually stimulating. Alan Alexander, Scottish Affairs

 
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