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The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military strategi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blanton, Thomas (Contribuidor), Calland, Richard (Contribuidor), Florini, Ann (Contribuidor, Editor ), Horsley, Jamie P. (Contribuidor), Neuman, Laura (Contribuidor), Obe, Ayo (Contribuidor), Petkova, Elena (Contribuidor), Ramkumar, Vivek (Contribuidor), Roberts, Alasdair (Contribuidor), Singh, Shekhar (Contribuidor), Stiglitz, Joseph E. (Contribuidor), Szekely, Ivan (Contribuidor), Zhou, Hanhua (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2007]
Colección:Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
Temas:
Freedom of information.
Transparency in government.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction. The Battle Over Transparency
  • PART ONE. National Stories
  • Chapter One. India. Grassroots Initiatives
  • Chapter Two. Toward a More Open China?
  • Chapter Three. Open Government in China Practice and Problems
  • Chapter Four. Central and Eastern Europe Starting from Scratch
  • Chapter Five. The Challenging Case of Nigeria
  • PART TWO. Themes
  • Chapter Six. Making the Law Work. The Challenges of Implementation
  • Chapter Seven. Prizing Open the Profit-Making World
  • Chapter Eight. The Struggle for Openness in the International Financial Institutions
  • Chapter Nine. Transparency and Environmental Governance
  • Chapter Ten. Transparency in the Security Sector
  • Conclusion. Whither Transparency?
  • Contributors
  • Index

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