Freedom of information and open government: The European community/union dimension

Birkinshaw, Patrick

doi:10.1016/s0740-624x(97)90050-2

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“…Indeed, from 1990 to 2000, a total of four articles addressing the topic of government transparency were published. This small number of articles is distributed across three different fields of study: public administration (Heald ), e‐government (Perritt and Rustad ), and international studies (Birkinshaw ; Mitchell ). Thus, while transparency has been a topic of long‐standing importance to the field of public administration, prior to 2001, this topic appears to have received very little attention from scholars.…”

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25 Years of Transparency Research: Evidence and Future Directions

Cucciniello

Porumbescu

Grimmelikhuijsen³

2016

Public Administration Review

338

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This article synthesizes the cross-disciplinary literature on government transparency. It systematically reviews research addressing the topic of government transparency published between 1990 and 2015. The review uses 187 studies to address three questions: (1) What forms of transparency has the literature identified? (2) What outcomes does the literature attribute to transparency? and (3) How successful is transparency in achieving those goals? In addressing these questions, the authors review six interrelated types of transparency and nine governance-and citizen-related outcomes of transparency. Based on the findings of the analysis, the authors outline an agenda for future research on government transparency and its effects that calls for more systematically investigating the ways in which contextual conditions shape transparency outcomes, replicating studies with varying methodologies, investigating transparency in neglected countries, and paying greater attention to understudied claims of transparency such as improved decision making and management. Practitioner Points• Government transparency is no cure-all and does not always have positive outcomes. • Transparency is effective at achieving certain outcomes, such as increasing participation, improving financial management, and reducing corruption. • Transparency is less effective at engendering trust in and legitimacy of government. • Our analysis suggests that government transparency "works" under some conditions but not under others.What these conditions are needs further investigation.

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Section: Results Of the Systematic Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

25 Years of Transparency Research: Evidence and Future Directions

Cucciniello

Porumbescu

Grimmelikhuijsen³

2016

Public Administration Review

338

253

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“…Cucciniello et al . (2017) noted two studies before 1998: Heald (1995) and Birkinshaw (1997). These two articles were excluded from our search because they did not meet the first criterion of including the keyword “transparency.” We decided not to include these two articles because doing so would not alter the main results, and we could remain consistent in our review criteria throughout the sample.…”

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Transparency in public administrations: a structured literature review

Cuadrado‐Ballesteros

Ríos

Guillamón

2023

JPBAFM

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PurposeLiterature about transparency in public-sector organizations has been attracting the attention of scholars for the last two decades. This study reviews the existing literature with the intention of creating a description of the state of the art, categorized by geographical areas, levels of government, topics, and methodologies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have developed a structured literature review following a rigorous protocol. The initial search was launched on 25 April 2022 on Scopus and Web of Science, resulting in 3,217 articles. After removing duplicates and studies that did not meet all the inclusion criteria specified in the review protocol, the final sample includes 956 articles from 1991 to 2021.FindingsThe analyses show a considerable increase in studies since 2005, especially in the last two years, when 30% of the publications have been produced. Most of the studies analyze the national/central level of government. Many authors compare different countries, while other scholars focus on specific countries, overall, the USA and the UK. The local level of government has also been widely studied, especially in the Spanish and Chinese contexts. The most frequently used methodologies are quantitative and empirical techniques, and the most common topics are those associated with accountability.Originality/valueThis study uses a huge sample (956 articles over the period 1991–2021), which has never been used before, to examine the literature on transparency. The structured literature review facilitates the identification of gaps that can be filled by future studies. These include analyzing transparency in specific geographical areas like Africa, Asia, and Latin America, studying transparency at different levels of government, especially at the regional and federal levels, and providing comparative studies and case study collections.

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“…Yet, public policy making in the 21 st century must be understood and competently discussed on the basis of open, comprehensive, and readily available data it has been argued [16]. In more general terms, the legitimacy of government rests on its continued credibility, which in turn roots in the transparency of its action and decision-making [4,14]. Transparency appears as a prerequisite of good governance [10].…”

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Transparency and openness in government

Scholl

Luna‐Reyes

2011

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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When coupled with direct stakeholder participation, transparency and open government have been touted as among the key drivers in the evolution of a less secretive, less singlehanded, more responsive, and in essence more democratic government of the 21 st century committed to preserving the public good, serving citizens and business, and also curtailing the overwhelming influence of special interest groups. Based on a system dynamics model of major factors, we find evidence for information feedbacks as major influencers in changing the dynamic processes between the executive branch, the legislative branch, the press, and the general public.

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Freedom of information and open government: The European community/union dimension

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

25 Years of Transparency Research: Evidence and Future Directions

25 Years of Transparency Research: Evidence and Future Directions

Transparency in public administrations: a structured literature review

Transparency and openness in government

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