Freedom of information and the developing world : the citizen, the state and models of openness /

Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, this book identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen's relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Darch, Colin
Otros Autores: Underwood, Peter G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Chandos Publications, �2010.
Colección:Chandos information professional series.
Temas:
Freedom of information > Developing countries.
Freedom of information > Africa.
Human rights > Developing countries.
Libert�e d'information > Afrique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Freedom of information
Human rights
Africa
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Developing countries and freedom of information
  • The diffusion problem and the semantic shift
  • Compliance and the impulse to secrecy
  • Freedom of information as a human right
  • Struggles for freedom of information in countries in transition
  • Struggles for freedom of information in Africa
  • From adversarialism to FoI 2.0.

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