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Troubling Transparency - The History and Future of Freedom of Information (Paperback)
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Troubling Transparency - The History and Future of Freedom of Information (Paperback)
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Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the
transparency movement's canonical achievements. Yet while many view
the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary
citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive
backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at
using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA
have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good
governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are
otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century's challenges.
Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from
different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in
the United States and abroad-how they are working, how they are
failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate
the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the
news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on
government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to
the FOIA model raised by the emergence of "open data" and other
approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of
FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed
legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to
move forward to improve access to information and government
functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real
and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and
comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger
project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for
journalism, law, government, and civil society.
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