Freedom of information legislation, state compliance and the discourse of knowledge: The South African experience

Access to information in the UK and India

“…One vital question is the coverage of private contractors. Only the South African PAIA specifically enables access to private bodies (Darch and Underwood 2005). The UK FOI can be extending via secondary legislation under section 5 of the Act.…”

Policy Evaluation via Composite Indexes: Qualitative Lessons from International Transparency Policy Indexes

“…Another set of scholarship, grounded in the literature on comparative politics and public policy, analyzes adoption processes, compliance with transparency norms, and transparency's effects (see for example, Cuillier, 2010;Darch & Underwood, 2005;Khagram, Fung, & de Renzio, 2013;Kosack & Fung, 2014;Mitchell, 1998;Neuman & Calland, 2007;Open Society Justice Initiative, 2006;Roberts, 2006;Wehner & De Renzio, 2011). Within this last strand of the literature, a growing field of scholarship critically analyzes how transparency policies are operationalized or evaluated (see for example Bellver & Kaufmann, 2005;Darch, 2013a;Fung et al, 2007;Ghosh & Kharas, 2011;Kosack & Fung, 2014;Michener & Bersch, 2013;Nelson, 2001;Veljkovic, Bogdanovic-Dinic, & Stoimenov, 2014).…”

Freedom of information legislation and its impact on press freedom: A cross-national study

“…Without government advocates, FOI policies tend to remain at a political dead end (Fung et al, 2007, p. 112). Hence the degree to which the ideal FOI is fulfilled depends on administrative capability to implement the law (Darch & Underwood, 2005;Davis, 2000;Feinberg, 2004;Halstuck, 2000;Islam, 2006), as well as bureaucratic attitudes (Relyea, 1979). Only certain FOIL countries are actually effectively operational upon implementation (Darch & Underwood, 2010;Relly & Sabharwal, 2009;Worthy, 2010).…”

“…While many studies have analyzed the impact of FOIL on achieving objectives (for example, access, openness, and transparency in regard to information) in its design (Birkinshaw, 2000(Birkinshaw, , 2006a(Birkinshaw, , 2006b(Birkinshaw, , 2010Darch & Underwood, 2005Feinberg, 2004;Frankel, 2001;Fung, Graham, & Weil, 2007;Hazell, Worthy, & Glover, 2010;Oltmann, Rosenbaum, & Hara, 2007;Roberts, 2000;Tavares, 2007;White, 2007), only a small amount of research discusses the influence of FOIL on press freedom, even though the effects of FOIL are felt most among the press. There is a paucity of systematic empirical investigation that tackles the larger effects of FOIL in the comprehensive, sociopolitical context of press freedom (Hazell et al, 2010, p. 3).…”