Government Transparency: Impacts and Unintended Consequences

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Springer, Sep 17, 2012 - Political Science - 279 pages
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.
 

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Nordic Openness as
Transparency and Institutions of PublicAccountability PartIII Organizational Developments
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TERO ERKKILÄ is Lecturer in Political Science at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.