Evaluating and fostering transparency in local administrations

Rodríguez-Navas, Pedro Molina; Breijo, Vanessa Rodríguez

doi:10.31447/as000032573.2019233.07

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“…This method was adapted to apply it also to the cases of Ecuador [29] and Colombia [30]. This involved studying the legislation regarding the organization of public administrations, transparency and the right of access to information in those countries, evaluating the transparency and quality of the information published on their websites and carrying out a comparative analysis with other evaluation procedures of active transparency in local administrations of other countries based on diverse disciplinary approaches [31], using both published studies [32] and the sites where national and international organizations present their results and methods.…”

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Transparency for Participation through the Communication Approach

Rodríguez-Navas

Morales

Lalinde

2021

IJGI

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Transparency is a communicative process whose aim is to provide citizens with information that will promote their participation in public affairs. However, its application is often reduced to a legally stipulated administrative act. In contrast, this article sets out the principles, attributes and evidence of transparency from a communication perspective, taking into consideration that transparency is treated as a process through which recipients obtain, understand and use information. This study focuses on the transparency of local town councils, although most of the concepts could be applied at other levels of public administration. To establish this framework, the legislation and application of transparency in three countries (Spain, Ecuador and Colombia) was studied using the Infoparticipa method designed with a communication approach in mind. A comparative study was then carried out using methods designed in other disciplines. Through this approach, the benefits of transparency were categorized to define six principles—disclosure, strengthening, visibility, comprehensibility, dissemination and humanism—and eight attributes of transparent information: veracity, timeliness, accessibility, usability, intelligibility, universality, pluralism and plurality. For each attribute, the evidence of its application was determined. This framework clarifies the perspective of transparency for participation from a communication approach.

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Transparency for Participation through the Communication Approach

Rodríguez-Navas

Morales

Lalinde

2021

IJGI

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“…As far as transparency is concerned, our research has revealed that only 55.2% of municipal websites display their mayors' biographies and 96% publish council meetings official records. There is still some work to be done regarding councillors' income declarations (only 8.4% display them) and financial transparency (for more statistics see Tavares and Sousa, 2018;Rodríguez-Navas and Breijo, 2019). Definitely a high percentage of municipal representatives don't believe in the concept of open data.…”

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Inovações no poder local em Portugal: contribuições para a democracia local

Almeida

2022

SPP

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In Portugal important legal innovations have been introduced in local government, related to the problems of negative images associated with longevity and corruption, and a decrease in voters' turnout. Independent local lists were introduced into the race in the form of citizen groups, mayors' terms were limited to three and there was a parity law. Participative budgets and decentralized local council meetings have also provided new tools for citizen participation. The object was to discuss whether these innovations are real contributions for local democracy. Methodology included the analysis of the legislative process and its enforcement, and practical consequences, namely on new representatives and citizen participation.

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“…These results indicate the importance of institutional and other economic factors that can hinder the implementation of digital strategies. In addition, in such national comparisons, the importance of analytical bias deriving from applying methodologies designed on the basis of the political sciences or from a communicative perspective has been observed [21].…”

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Health Transparency and Communication on the Government Websites of Ibero-American Countries: The Cases of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Spain

Ibáñez

Rodríguez-Navas

Morales

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Through the strategic use of health communication from their websites, government institutions can achieve greater promotion and prevent health issues for citizens, at whom such websites are aimed. Thus, the transparency of these sites is essential to favor issues such as participation, accountability, and good governance. In the present study, through content analysis, we examined how active transparency and communication in health is built through analyzing the information provided by the different administrative levels with competencies in this field (government, regions, and municipalities) from the following countries: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Spain. The results were projected according to a double axis of analysis. On the one hand, we offer a description of the levels of management of this phenomenon (structural characteristics and available resources). On the other hand, we developed indices based on each of the countries to compare the typologies grouped in these Ibero-American countries. As a general conclusion, the results evinced insufficient transparency in common; however, the deficit was less in countries that had a public health system.

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Evaluating and fostering transparency in local administrations

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Transparency for Participation through the Communication Approach

Transparency for Participation through the Communication Approach

Inovações no poder local em Portugal: contribuições para a democracia local

Health Transparency and Communication on the Government Websites of Ibero-American Countries: The Cases of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Spain

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