Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency - Couverture rigide

Fung, Archon; Graham, Mary; Weil, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521876176 ISBN 13 : 9780521876179

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Fung Archon Graham Mary Weil David

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency policies often produce information that is incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors, workers, and community residents who could benefit from them. Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their everyday choices.

Biographie de l'auteur

Archon Fung is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research examines the impacts on public and private governance of civic participation, public deliberation, and transparency. He has authored three books, including Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (2004); three edited collections; and more than fifty articles appearing in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics and Society, Governance, and Journal of Policy and Management.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521876176
• ISBN 13: 9780521876179
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 300