Transparency The Key to Better Governance 1st Edition by Christopher Hood,David Heald ISBN 0197263836 9780197263839

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ISBN 10: 0197263836

ISBN 13: 9780197263839 

Author: Christopher Hood, David Heald

‘Transparency’ is widely canvassed as a key to better governance, increasing trust in public-office holders. But transparency is more often preached than practised, more often referred to than defined, and more often advocated than critically analysed. This volume exposes this fashionable doctrine to critical scrutiny from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, philosophy and economics.

The volume traces the history of transparency as a doctrine of good governance and social organization, and identifies its different forms; it assesses the benefits and drawbacks of measures to enhance various forms of transparency; and examines how institutions respond to measures intended to increase transparency, and with what consequences.
Transparency is shown not to be a new doctrine. It can come into conflict with other doctrines of good governance, and there are some important exceptions to Jeremy Bentham’s famous dictum that ‘the more closely we are watched, the better we behave’. And instead of heralding a new culture of openness in government, measures to improve transparency tend to lead to tighter and more centralised management of information.

Table of contents:

1. Transparency in Historical Perspective — Christopher Hood

2. Varieties of Transparency — David Heald

3. Transparency as a Human Right — Patrick Birkinshaw

4. Transparency as an Instrumental Value — David Heald

5. Transparency and the Ethics of Communication — Onora O’Neill

6. The More Closely We Are Watched, the Better We Behave? — Andrea Prat

7. Dashed Expectations: Governmental Adaptation to Transparency Rules — Alasdair Roberts

8. What Hope Freedom of Information in the UK — Andrew McDonald

9. Member State Budgetary Transparency in the Economic and Monetary Union — James Savage

10. Does Transparency Make a Difference? The Example of European Council of Ministers — David Stasavage

11. Varieties of Software and their Implications for Effective Democratic Government — Jean Camp

12. Transparency and Digital Government — Helen Margetts

13. Conclusion — Christopher Hood

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