2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2018.06.001
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A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws

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“…Other findings revealed by the current study include a significant and positive correlation between more compliant responses and the use of Web‐based request‐and‐response platforms for sending FOI requests (as opposed to via e‐mail or a generic contact form); and, contrary to other FOI field experiments (e.g., Rodríguez & Rossel, ), we find no significant difference in the probability that males receive more compliant responses than females.…”
Section: Introductioncontrasting
confidence: 85%
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“…Other findings revealed by the current study include a significant and positive correlation between more compliant responses and the use of Web‐based request‐and‐response platforms for sending FOI requests (as opposed to via e‐mail or a generic contact form); and, contrary to other FOI field experiments (e.g., Rodríguez & Rossel, ), we find no significant difference in the probability that males receive more compliant responses than females.…”
Section: Introductioncontrasting
confidence: 85%
“…Their results show striking impartiality, a result we later question while specifying our own experimental design. In Uruguay, Rodríguez and Rossel () test the effects of professional cues (e.g., journalist, businessperson), gender, as well as the effect of demonstrated knowledge about the country's FOI law. Only signaling knowledge about the FOI law has an effect, but exclusively for men, which means that women appear to be the subject of bias.…”
Section: Moving Beyond the Paradigmatic Field Experiments On Discriminmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, we show that making a formal FOIA request significantly increases access to municipal government officials. This second contribution advances a growing comparative FOIA compliance literature (Grimmelikhuijsen, John, Meijer, & Worthy, 2018;Michener, Velasco, Contreras, & Rodrigues, 2020;Peisakhin, 2012;Rodríguez & Rossel, 2018;Worthy, John, & Vannoni, 2017) and is vital in showing that FOIAs are an effective means of increasing transparency in the municipal governments of California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. As Grimmelikhuijsen et al (2018) argue, there is immense value in increasing the number of FOIA compliance studies in order to allow us to exploit cross polity variation in institutional design.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…A study of Mexican agencies tested if purportedly influential citizens received higher FOIA request response rates than ordinary citizens but found few differences (Lagunes & Pocasangre, 2019). Uruguayan studies have tested compliance by purported group membership (e.g., industry, journalists, ordinary citizens, influential citizens) and gender (Piñeiro & Rossel, 2015;Rodríguez & Rossel, 2018) and find evidence of discrimination against females. FOIA studies conducted in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands find that informal requests were less likely to be complied with (Worthy, John, & Vannoni, 2017;Grimmelikhuijsen et al, 2018).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…among other characteristics. Audit studies have been fielded on legislators and bureaucrats (Einstein and Glick 2017; Rodríguez and Rossel 2018) and been applied to the comparative context in Africa (McClendon 2016), Latin America (Lagunes and Pocasangre 2016; Michener et al 2019), Europe (Habel and Birch 2019), and elsewhere.…”
Section: Audit Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%