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Fung, Archon; Graham, Mary; Weil, David

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“…are required to control corruption. Indeed, the promise of transparency is not satisfied with the mere existence of laws, but would seem to depend on institutional quality (Fung et al, 2007;Hood and Heald, 2006).…”

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Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

Jiménez

Albalate

2018

Eur J Gov Econ

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This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between local government transparency and political corruption in a sample of Spain's 110 largest municipalities. After implementing a two-stage probit estimation procedure, our evidence indicates that transparency is inversely related to the likelihood of local political corruption. This result supports the hypothesis that a lack of transparency conceals corrupt activities and that an unwillingness to provide information is a good proxy of the likelihood of corruption.

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Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

Jiménez

Albalate

2018

Eur J Gov Econ

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“…A lack of transparency leading to misallocation of organizational resources is often an important reason for such failures. The recognition of the pervasiveness of such accountability challenges across organizational types has motivated policy and legal scholars to explore the potential of information-based regulation (Gormley and Weimer 1999;Blackman et al 2004;Weil et al 2006;Fung et al 2007). 1 The premise of this regulatory approach is two fold.…”

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Charity Watchdogs and the Limits of Information-Based Regulation

2010

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Transparency concerns and the concomitant accountability challenges have motivated policy and legal scholars to explore information-based regulatory approaches. We examine their usefulness in the context of the nonprofit sector which tends to show signs of governance failure. Although nonprofits are required by law to disclose information on fund use, nonprofit donors face difficulties in accessing and interpreting information about how nonprofits are deploying resources. Charity watchdogs make this information available to donors in a convenient format. In theory, this should allow donors to reward nonprofits that devote resources to service delivery and to punish those that are less careful about controlling overheads. To test the relationship between charity ratings and donations, we examine 90 nonprofits in the state of Washington for the period 2004-2007. Drawing on ratings data provided by Charity Navigator, we find that changes in charity ratings tend not to affect donor support to these nonprofits. We explore this statistical finding via interviews with 10 charities located in Washington State. Supporting the statistical results, we find that charities believe that donors tend not to systematically embed ratings in their donation decisions. Instead, they believe that donors assess nonprofits' effectiveness and trustworthiness via other means such as familiarity, word-of-mouth, or the visibility of the nonprofit in their community. In sum, the policy challenge is to provide information which users desire such as organizational effectiveness as opposed to basic fund allocation in the case of non-profits. What matters for policy efficacy is not how much information is provided but of what type.Résumé Les problèmes de transparence et les défis concomitants de responsabilité ont motivé les institutions et les juristes pour explorer des approches réglementaires basées sur l'information. Nous examinons leur utilité dans le contexte du secteur non lucratif, qui montre des signes d'échec de gouvernance. Bien que les organisations à but non lucratif soient tenues par la loi de dévoiler des informations sur l'utilisation des fonds, les donateurs à but non lucratif font face à des difficultés pour accéder et interpréter les informations sur l'utilisation des ressources par les organisations à but non lucratif. Les associations caritatives de surveillance rendent disponibles ces informations aux bailleurs de fonds sous un format pratique. En théorie, cette action devrait permettre aux donateurs de récompenser les organisations à but non lucratif qui consacrent des ressources pour les prestations de services, et de punir celles qui sont moins rigoureuses sur le contrôle des frais généraux. Afin de mesurer le rapport entre les notations des associations caritatives et les dons, nous examinons 90 organismes à but non lucratif dans l'É tat de Washington, pour la période 2004-2007. Nous appuyant sur les données des notations fournies par Charity Navigator, nous constatons que les changements dans les notations des associat...

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“…The issue of quality information signaling and disclosure has attracted contribution from eminent scholars like the one in [46] who wrote a book titled "blacked out: government secrecy in the information age". This seminal work motivated more work on product information disclosures [47]. The pillars of a product's bad or good news representation were laid by [48] [52].…”

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Can One Drink Informal Water Alternatives Directly? Using Mobile Phone to Establish Trust in Quality

Ochungo¹,

Ouma²,

Obiero³

et al. 2019

JWARP

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The informal water market in cities within the Global South is expanding, thanks to drought associated water shortage challenges and other socio-hydrological factors. A midst the growth is the inherent information signal asymmetry driven mainly by the vendors' unwillingness to share the actual quality data of their source water with their customers. As a result a big mistrust environment has been created as currently; the customers have no mechanism to verify the water quality in real time. This paper aimed at developing an android application software system to fill the gap. The system is to operate the water vending business landscape as a trusted social network site (SNS) using handheld mobile phone devices. An Agile-Scrum methodology was utilized as it allows for quick changes to the system as necessary. An android platform was chosen as the initial Operating System (OS) to run the software system due to its faster global outreach capability. Specifically, Android Studio 3.4.2 IDE running on Windows 10 was deployed. And the primary languages used within the IDE were; Kotlin for the functionality and XML for the user interface (UI). Additionally, the Firebase SDK tools were used for cloud-based database functionality. The results of the prototype include; user side access and feedback exchanges, backend side supports and other added functionalities. The paper is of the strong view that since the system works on anytime-anywhere modality, then it is possible that one can drink the informal water directly. The system is recommended for full scale trial in the affected cities.

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Cited by 625 publications

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Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

Transparency and local government corruption: what does lack of transparency hide?

Charity Watchdogs and the Limits of Information-Based Regulation

Can One Drink Informal Water Alternatives Directly? Using Mobile Phone to Establish Trust in Quality

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