Table of Contents

Christopher Hood: Transparency in Historical Perspective
David Heald: Varieties of Transparency
Patrick Birkinshaw: Transparency as a Human Right
David Heald: Transparency as an Instrumental Value
Onora O'Neill: Transparency and the Ethics of Communication
Andrea Prat: The More Closely We Are Watched, the Better We Behave?
Alasdair Roberts: Dashed Expectations: Governmental Adaptation to Transparency Rules
Andrew McDonald: What Hope Freedom of Information in th UK
James Savage: Member State Bedgetary Transparency in the Economic and Monetary Union
David Stasavage: Does Transparency Make a Difference? The Example of European Council of Ministers
Jean Camp: Varieties of Software and their Implications for Effective Democratic Government
Helen Margetts: Transparency and Digital Government
Christopher Hood: Conclusion

About the Author

Christopher Hood is Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University.

David Heald is Professor of Financial Management at the University of Sheffield.

Reviews

...admirably argued, intellectually stimulating.
*Alan Alexander, Scottish Affairs*