The economics of transparency in politics
By: edited by Albert Breton ... [et al.].
Contributors: Breton, Albert.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780754649335
Subjects: Transparency in government.; Government information.; Disclosure of information.; Freedom of information.
Description: The contributors explore the reasons why some voters could prefer not to be better informed about a government policy even if this additional information was offered to them at no cost. Thus, voters may be aware of their inability to judge some aspects of policies and consequently accept that these aspects remain opaque.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acquiescence to opacity / Pierre Salmon and Alain Wolfelsperger; title: Citizens' knowledge, politicians' duplicity / Russell Hardin; title: Transparency and efficiency / Albert Breton; title: The artist as a secret agent : liberalism against populism / Manfred J. Holler; title: Jihad vs. McWorld : a rational choice approach / Ronald Wintrobe; title: Invisible feet and grabbing hands : the political economy of corruption and welfare / Johann Lambsdorff; title: Information, corruption, and measures for the promotion of manufactured exports / Glenn P. Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo; title: Cases for and against transparency/obfuscation in intergovernmental relations / Giorgio Brosio; title: Transparency in the budget process of a bureaucratic organization : a principal-agent model of budgeting / Louis M. Imbeau; title: Redistribution, decentralization, and constitutional rules / Federico Etro and Piero Giarda.