Transparency as a Human Right

Birkinshaw, Patrick

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“…One perspective holds that transparency is a ‘human right’, as it can help to protect against inefficient or oppressive government (Birkinshaw, ). Indeed, as Ferry and Eckersley (2015b) have identified, transparency can improve accountability in certain contexts.…”

Section: Transparency Definedmentioning

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Accountability and Transparency in English Local Government: Moving from ‘Matching Parts’ to ‘Awkward Couple’?

Ferry¹,

Eckersley²,

Zakaria³

2015

Financ Acc Manag

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Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Hood (2010), this paper will show how such reforms mean that transparency and accountability are moving from being 'matching parts' to an 'awkward couple', and how this has significant implications for public services.

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Section: Transparency Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accountability and Transparency in English Local Government: Moving from ‘Matching Parts’ to ‘Awkward Couple’?

Ferry¹,

Eckersley²,

Zakaria³

2015

Financ Acc Manag

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“…Transparency in resettlement can be viewed as comprising two components: access to information and openness of the process [25,53]. The dissemination of and access to timely and relevant information to all affected persons and their representatives provides a solid platform for their participation in the decision-making and collaboration with the acquiring authority [44,54].…”

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In the Land of the Dammed: Assessing Governance in Resettlement of Ghana’s Bui Dam Project

Asiama

Lengoiboni

Molen

2017

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Resettlement resulting from dam construction has raised several concerns due to the negative aftermath impacts. In Ghana, the construction of three hydroelectric dams resulted in large-scale resettlements. Given the little experience that Ghana has in resettlements, it is necessary for a robust monitoring structure for resettlements. However, this was not available in the last resettlement undertaken for the Bui Dam Project. This paper aims at developing an assessment framework for monitoring resettlement activities on customary lands from a good governance perspective. Based on four good governance principles, transparency, public participation and inclusiveness, equity and rule of law and accountability, a good governance assessment framework is built and applied to the Bui Dam Project using a case study approach. Data were collected through interviews and focus group discussion with the key actors of the resettlement project. It was first found that the planning stage of the resettlement came out with a robust plan that was to prevent the impoverishment of the affected persons. However, in the implementation of the resettlement, not all good governance principles were adhered to. In conclusion, it was found that by deconstructing the resettlement process with a good governance framework, the problematic areas of the resettlement can be effectively differentiated between the planning and implementation phases.

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“…Goals can be stated in broad terms allowing professionals great leeway in interpretation or they can be more specific (Schneider & Ingram, 1997). Transparency can be seen as a goal in itself, in which transparency is seen as a basic human right (Birkenshaw, 2006;Florini, 2007;Scholtes, 2012) or as a means to an end with the aim of improving political institutions (Heald, 2006;Mitchell, 2011). The third dimension refers to rules.…”

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National Transparency Regimes: Rules or Principles? A Comparative Analysis of the United States and The Netherlands

Ruijer

Meijer

2016

International Journal of Public Administration

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Technology development and democratization have been identified as the general drivers of the worldwide thrust in transparency. But what transparency regimes do these drivers generate in different countries? This mixed method study indicates that national regimes are different due to pre-existing institutional differences and critical junctures in the historical development of transparency regimes. Our analysis shows that the U.S. transparency regime can be characterized as a rules-based approach while a principles-based transparency regime prevails in the Netherlands. This article nuances the debate about the global character of transparency and highlights two different outcomes of the push for transparency.

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Transparency as a Human Right

Cited by 46 publications

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Accountability and Transparency in English Local Government: Moving from ‘Matching Parts’ to ‘Awkward Couple’?

Accountability and Transparency in English Local Government: Moving from ‘Matching Parts’ to ‘Awkward Couple’?

In the Land of the Dammed: Assessing Governance in Resettlement of Ghana’s Bui Dam Project

National Transparency Regimes: Rules or Principles? A Comparative Analysis of the United States and The Netherlands

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