“…It will nevertheless be performed to prove the mentioned statement and to give some pointers on contents in which the authors saw transparency connected to different public governance models. Among the mentioned 435 papers that were analyzed, only (a) nine (Brown, Waterhouse, & Flynn, ; Bundschuh‐Rieseneder, ; Çetin, ; Flinders, ; Navarro Galera & Rodríguez Bolívar, ; Newberry & Pallot, ; Pilcher, ; Schneider & Sadowski, ; Vigoda‐Gadot & Meiri, ) address transparency in connection with the NPM, (b) five connect good governance and transparency (Bundschuh‐Rieseneder, ; Buteau‐Duitschaever, McCutcheon, Eagles, Havitz, & Glover, ; P. F. J. Eagles et al, ; P. Eagles, Havitz, McCutcheon, Buteau‐Duitschaever, & Glover, ; Pasape, Anderson, & Lindi, ), and (c) only two (Herrala & Haapasalo, ; Schneider & Sadowski, ) connect transparency with other/hybrid models of government.…”