Honey v. Vinegar: Testing Compliance-Gaining Theories in the Context of Freedom of Information Laws

Googling the requester: Identity‐questing and discrimination in public service provision

“…In evaluating the substance of responses, however, FOI field experiments have not used a uniform approach. Most leave considerable wiggle‐room for subjective judgments, assessing “whether responses provided the information or not” (Cuillier, ) or qualifying responses as “good” if they directly answer the question posed by providing “relevant information” (Lagunes & Pocasangre, ). By contrast, we follow the lead of Worthy et al () in using a construct‐based measure that assigns scores to each response based on predefined “completeness” coding protocols and benchmarks that conform to an m of n logic (Goertz, ).…”

“…Finally, we add to our main hypotheses-preferential treatment and burden-the effect of gender as a secondary hypothesis. Findings of discrimination against women are common, especially in a country with a long legacy of machismo (see, e.g., Santos & Garibaldi de Hilal, 2018;Ceratti, 2014).…”

Policy Evaluation via Composite Indexes: Qualitative Lessons from International Transparency Policy Indexes

“…"Simulated user" evaluations such as freedom of information audits, as discussed, can provide highly valid results, although small sample sizes of agencies or jurisdictions mean they are not always reliable. Currently, user-simulated field experiments abound, many of which test for public service discrimination (see for examples Avellaneda, 2013;Cuillier, 2010;Faller, Nathan, & White, 2014;Fried, Lagunes, & Venkataramani, 2010;Lagunes, 2009;Michener et al, 2014, pp. 87-94;Peisakhin, 2011).…”

“…Another set of scholarship, grounded in the literature on comparative politics and public policy, analyzes adoption processes, compliance with transparency norms, and transparency's effects (see for example, Cuillier, 2010;Darch & Underwood, 2005;Khagram, Fung, & de Renzio, 2013;Kosack & Fung, 2014;Mitchell, 1998;Neuman & Calland, 2007;Open Society Justice Initiative, 2006;Roberts, 2006;Wehner & De Renzio, 2011). Within this last strand of the literature, a growing field of scholarship critically analyzes how transparency policies are operationalized or evaluated (see for example Bellver & Kaufmann, 2005;Darch, 2013a;Fung et al, 2007;Ghosh & Kharas, 2011;Kosack & Fung, 2014;Michener & Bersch, 2013;Nelson, 2001;Veljkovic, Bogdanovic-Dinic, & Stoimenov, 2014).…”

Managing governance complexity and knowledge networks in transparency initiatives: the case of police open data

“…In such cases a competing legal requirement may come in the form of security concerns or legal disputes that may revolve around the disclosure of sensitive information (Pina, Torres, and Royo 2007;Piotrowski and Van Ryzin 2007). As compliance with information requests depends in part on the discretion of public officials (Cuillier 2010), in legal-normative environments that constrain or limit information sharing this discretion is expected to lend itself to greater complexity that negatively affects the decisions by public agencies to become more open.…”