Does open governance strengthen democracy? The Illusion of
Accountability contends that it does not. Leveraging a wealth of
data from decades of legislative politics in the American states,
the book assesses the causes and consequences of 'open meetings
laws,' which require public access to proceedings in state
legislatures. The work traces the roots of these laws back to the
founding constitutions of some states and analyzes the waves of
adoptions and exemptions to open meetings that occurred in the
twentieth century. The book then examines the effects of these
transparency laws on a host of politically consequential outcomes
both inside and outside the legislature. This analysis consistently
finds that open meetings do not influence legislators' behavior or
citizens' capacity to alter that behavior. Instead, a link between
transparent legislatures and an expanded system of organized
interests is established. This illuminating work concludes that
transparency reform only creates the illusion of accountability in
state government.
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