The Political Origins of Transparency

Berliner, Daniel

doi:10.1017/s0022381613001412

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“…In other words, it concerns the amount of information citizens possess on the way governments carry out their policies. This aspect of transparency is often difficult to measure; yet it may be partially captured by indices of democracy (Broz, 2002), studies of central bank independence and freedom of information laws (Berliner, 2014;Chortareas, Stasavage, & Sterne, 2002;Islam, 2006), or in-depth case studies (Öge, 2014, 2015).…”

Section: Is Transparency a Remedy For Corruption?mentioning

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Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Öge

2016

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Abstract:The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) sets the standard in revenue transparency in 46 countries and works under the assumption that compliance with the initiative will improve transparency and curb corruption in member states. However, individual case studies raise doubts about the success of the initiative. Building upon the literatures on compliance and governance, this paper analyzes the impact of EITI membership on transparency and corruption levels between 2006 and 2013. By using interrupted time series and panel data analyses, this research makes an original contribution to show that affiliation with the EITI immediately improved overall aggregate data disclosure in member countries in this period. At the same time, the paper also shows that perceptions of corruption did not change. This outcome questions the effectiveness of promoting only a narrow definition of transparency in extractive industries as a measure to prevent corruption. The results imply that a more comprehensive treatment of transparency might be necessary; specifically to distinguish regimes that use transparency reforms for public relations purposes as opposed to genuine reformers.

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Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Öge

2016

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“…Finally, there are other empirical factors that explain open data use that are not included in this study, as evidenced by the low reported pseudo-R 2 statistic. Prior studies show important roles for other factors than governance complexity and network knowledge management such as leadership political structure, and competition (e.g., Ganapati and Reddick 2014;Berliner 2014). How these other variables fit together with those in the present work is another question that should be investigated.…”

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Managing governance complexity and knowledge networks in transparency initiatives: the case of police open data

Ingrams

2017

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Public organisations are often described as being subject to types of complexity that result from the interorganisational structure of governance networks. Transparency programmes add another level of complexity due to increased information openness. However, neither the nature of this complexity nor the network management approaches needed for transparency programmes has been conceptually developed. To address this gap, this article brings together governance complexity theory and knowledge management theory. An empirical model is tested using the case of police open data with regression analysis and 22 expert interviews. The results show that institutional and environmental complexity such as budget pressures, legal-normative constraints, and task complexity exert a negative influence on police information openness. However, network knowledge management practices including developing mission focus on people and communication and overcoming organisational boundaries through interorganisational collaboration can counteract these problems of complexity.

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“…E-government Readiness Index and E-participation Index of China (Source: UN E-Government Survey 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010 Having noted that transparency and openness always have the political implications (Berliner, 2014), economic openness likely stimulates political transparency and participation that pose a challenge to the dictatorship of political parties. Through the eyes of parties' leaders in authoritarian regimes, economic openness and political openness should not come together, as happened in the East Europe.…”

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E-government without E-democracy in the case of Vietnam: Transparency has been a sham?

Long¹,

Hoa²,

Anh³

2017

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For over decade, Vietnam has made many efforts to promote e-government and improve efficiency and effectiveness of its public administration. As a result, the administrative system becomes more transparent time after time. However, E-democracy does not go hand in hand with e-government in the case of Vietnam wherein a non-democratic government has to strike the balance between economic and political openness. This paper aims to shed more light on a case of an authoritarian regime in the path from e-government to e-democracy. This is such a long, tough, and rocky journey linked with democratization in an authoritarian regime.

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The Political Origins of Transparency

Cited by 192 publications

References 29 publications

Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Managing governance complexity and knowledge networks in transparency initiatives: the case of police open data

E-government without E-democracy in the case of Vietnam: Transparency has been a sham?

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