The right to know : transparency for an open world /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Florini, Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia (Series)
Temas:
Transparency in government.
Freedom of information.
Access to Information
Liberté d'information.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Openbaarheid van bestuur.
Recht van informatie.
Casestudies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the battle over transparency / Ann Florini
  • 1. India : the grassroots leads / Shekhar Singh
  • 2. Toward a more open China? / Jamie P. Horsley
  • 3. Open government in China : practice and problems / Hanhua Zhou
  • 4. Central and Eastern Europe : starting from scratch / Ivan Szekely
  • 5. Challenging case of Nigeria / Ayo Obe
  • 6. Making the law work : the challenges of implementation / Laura Neuman and Richard Calland
  • 7. Prizing open the profit-making world / Richard Calland
  • 8. Struggle for openness in the international financial institutions / Thomas Blanton
  • 9. Transparency and environmental governance / Vivek Ramkumar and Elena Petkova.
  • 10. Transparency in the security sector / Alasdair Roberts
  • Conclusion : whither transparency? / Ann Florini.

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