Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil

Full Disclosure

The Perils and Promise of Transparency

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Produktbeschreibung

Which SUVs are most likely to rollover? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water authorities, and others to improve their products and practices. Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies. At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens. But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies, Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers, and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780521876179
• ISBN-10: 0521876176
• Artikelnr.: 22516885

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Governance by transparency
2. An unlikely policy innovation
3. Designing information-based regulation
4. What makes disclosure work
5. What makes disclosure policies sustainable?
6. International transparency
7. Toward collaborative transparency
8. The future of disclosure
Appendix: Eighteen major cases.

Rezensionen

"Governmental transparency efforts inform the public about additives in the food we eat, dangerous criminals in our neighborhoods, and the financial support of our political leaders. Full Disclosure offers several important lessons that will help give citizens easier access to vital information through the creation of better, more meaningful transparency policies." Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico