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Transparency: The Key to Better Governance? (Hardcover, New)
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Transparency: The Key to Better Governance? (Hardcover, New)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, 135
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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.
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