British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 135

Transparency: The Key to Better Governance?

edited by Christopher Hood & David Heald

Published 2006
for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 246 pages
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726383-9
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This is a critical look at the now pervasive idea of achieving better governance through greater openness to outside scrutiny. It shows that that transparency can conflict with other 'good governance' values, and that measures to promote it often lead to a tighter control of information.

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