Government Transparency [electronic resource] : Impacts and Unintended Consequences /
Erkkilä, T.author.
Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy ideas that can lead to unintended consequences. It critically examines whether or not increased transparency really leads to increased democratic accountability.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: BACKGROUND AND THEORY -- Introduction -- Paradoxes and Unintended Consequences of Transparency -- PART II: TRANSPARENCY AND CENTRAL STEERING -- Transparency and Ideational Changes: Nordic Openness as a Policy Discourse -- Transparency and Institutions of Public Accountability -- PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS -- NPM, Budget Transparency and Census Information -- New Domains of Openness and Transparency: Performing Foreign Affairs -- PART IV -- CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.
Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy ideas that can lead to unintended consequences. It critically examines whether or not increased transparency really leads to increased democratic accountability.
Public policy.
Political science.
Public administration.
Comparative politics.
Public Policy.
European Politics.
Political Science.
Public Administration.
Comparative Politics.
US Politics.