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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Hood is Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University. David Heald is Professor of Financial Management at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext This is a critical look at the now pervasive idea of achieving better governance through greater openness to outside scrutiny. It shows that transparency can conflict with other 'good governance' values, and that measures to promote it often lead to a tighter control of information. Zusammenfassung '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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
