Transparency The Key to Better Governance,9780197263839

Transparency The Key to Better Governance

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ISBN13: 9780197263839
ISBN10: 0197263836
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-23
Publisher(s): British Academy
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Summary

This is a critical look at the now pervasive idea of achieving better governance through greater openness to outside scrutiny. It shows that that transparency can conflict with other 'good governance' values, and that measures to promote it often lead to a tighter control of information.

Author Biography


Christopher Hood is Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University.

David Heald is Professor of Financial Management at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface x
Part I: Transparency as a Term, Idea, and Movement
Transparency in Historical Perspective
3(22)
Christopher Hood
Varieties of Transparency
25(22)
David Heald
Part II: Transparency as a Problem and Solution
Transparency as a Human Right
47(12)
Patrick Birkinshaw
Transparency as an Instrumental Value
59(16)
David Heald
Transparency and the Ethics of Communication
75(16)
Onora O'Neill
The More Closely We Are Watched, the Better We Behave?
91(16)
Andrea Prat
Part III: Transparency and Institutional Behaviour
Dashed Expectations: Governmental Adaptation to Transparency Rules
107(20)
Alasdair Roberts
What Hope for Freedom of Information in the UK?
127(18)
Andrew McDonald
Member-State Budgetary Transparency in the Economic and Monetary Union
145(20)
James D. Savage
Does Transparency Make a Difference? The Example of the European Council of Ministers
165(18)
David Stasavage
Part IV: Transparency and Information-Age Technology
Varieties of Software and their Implications for Effective Democratic Government
183(14)
L. Jean Camp
Transparency and Digital Government
197(14)
Helen Margetts
Part V: Conclusion
Beyond Exchanging First Principles? Some Closing Comments
211(16)
Christopher Hood
Index 227

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