Transparency - The Key to Better Governance

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 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hood, Christopher (EDT)/ Heald Hood, Heald Hood
• Assisted by: David Heald (Editor), David (Professor of Financial Management Heald (Editor), Heald David (Editor), Christopher Hood (Editor), Christopher (Gladstone Professor of Government Hood (Editor), Hood Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780197263839
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726383-9
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca; Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political science & theory, Public Administration, Political science and theory, Public administration / Public policy