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'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.
Contents
Transparency in Historical Perspective
Varieties of Transparency
Transparency as a Human Right
Transparency as an Instrumental Value
Transparency and the Ethics of Communication
The More Closely We Are Watched, the Better We Behave?
Dashed Expectations: Governmental Adaptation to Transparency Rules
What Hope Freedom of Information in th UK
Member State Bedgetary Transparency in the Economic and Monetary Union
Does Transparency Make a Difference? The Example of European Council of Ministers
Varieties of Software and their Implications for Effective Democratic Government
Transparency and Digital Government
Conclusion
