Screen LibraryGovernment transparency：impacts and unintended consequences
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Public sector organizations |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 279 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780230300057 (hardback) 0230300057 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | D523 |
| CLC: | D523 |
| Call Number: | D523/E689 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-271) and index. Part I. Background and Theory: 1. Paradoxes and unintended consequences of transparency -- Part II. Transparency and Central Steering: 2. Transparency and ideational changes: Nordic openness as a policy discourse; 3. Transparency and institutions of public accountability -- Part III. Organizational Developments: 4. NPM, budget transparency and census information; 5. New domains of openness and transparency: performing goreign affairs -- Conclusions. "Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy ideas that can lead to unintended consequences. It critically examines whether or not increased transparency really leads to increased democratic accountability"-- |