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- Book Title
- The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World
- Publication Date
- 2007-05-22
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN
- 9780231141581
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231141580
ISBN-13
9780231141581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
58649332
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Right to Know : Transparency for an Open World
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Business & Financial, Business Ethics, Globalization, Civil Rights
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
Series
Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-036068
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
352.8/8
Table Of Content
Foreword, by Joseph E. Stiglitz Introduction: The Battle Over Transparency, by Ann Florini Part 1: National Stories 1. India: Grassroots Initiatives, by Shekhar Singh 2. Toward a More Open China?, by Jamie P. Horsley 3. Open Government in China: Practice and Problems, by Hanhua Zhou 4. Central and Eastern Europe: Starting from Scratch, by Ivan Szekely 5. The Challenging Case of Nigeria, by Ayo Obe Part 2: Themes 6. Making the Law Work: The Challenges of Implementation, by Laura Neuman and Richard Calland 7. Prizing Open the Profit-Making World, by Richard Calland 8. The Struggle for Openness in the International Financial Institutions, by Thomas Blanton 9. Transparency and Environmental Governance, by Vivek Ramkumar and Elena Petkova 10. Transparency in the Security Sector, by Alasdair Roberts Conclusion: Whither Transparency?, by Ann Florini Contributors Index
Synopsis
The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military strategies, personal data, and trade secrets is crucial to the protection of the public interest. Over the past several years, transparency has swept the world. India and South Africa have adopted groundbreaking national freedom of information laws. China is on the verge of promulgating new openness regulations that build on the successful experiments of such major municipalities as Shanghai. From Asia to Africa to Europe to Latin America, countries are struggling to overcome entrenched secrecy and establish effective disclosure policies. More than seventy now have or are developing major disclosure policies or laws. But most of the world's nearly 200 nations do not have coherent disclosure laws; implementation of existing rules often proves difficult; and there is no consensus about what disclosure standards should apply to the increasingly powerful private sector. As governments and corporations battle with citizens and one another over the growing demand to submit their secrets to public scrutiny, they need new insights into whether, how, and when greater openness can serve the public interest, and how to bring about beneficial forms of greater disclosure. The Right to Know distills the lessons of many nations' often bitter experience and provides careful analysis of transparency's impact on governance, business regulation, environmental protection, and national security. Its powerful lessons make it a critical companion for policymakers, executives, and activists, as well as students and scholars seeking a better understanding of how to make information policy serve the public interest.
LC Classification Number
JC598.R547 2007
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