Transparency Versus Populism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11104804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Michener (0000-0002-6648-8649, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 671-695 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administration & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00953997221147227 |
| OpenAlex | W4318826010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article theorizes and analyzes the relationship between populist leaders and government transparency. Employing a paired comparison of leaders in Brazil and the United States before and during the pandemic, it illuminates three interlocking tactics: (a) the weakening of transparency institutions, (b) erasure and suppression of transparency, and (c) corruption of transparency via misuse and misinformation. Populist efforts to subvert pandemic transparency elicited a striking response in both countries: the emergence of “compensatory transparency initiatives” (CTIs). By collating and disclosing subnational pandemic data to fill transparency gaps at the federal level, CTIs drew attention to populist failings
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economics · Language change · Misinformation · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Transparency (behavior · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Making Transparency Work
How Populism Affects Bioethics
Did populist governance change corruption risks during crises across European countries
Populist attitudes among civil servants
Populism in the EU and the trade-off between ethical claiming and mainstreaming
Democratic accountability regimes, populism, and transparency in the European Parliament
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission
Populism and the Strength of Freedom of Information Laws
Resisting the tide
Compensatory collaborative governance
Why Didn't Brazilian Democracy Die
Blacked Out
What happens when transparency meets blame-avoidance?
Hacker science versus closed science
Backsliding
Post-Truth
Transparency in a “Post-Fact” World
Medical populism and the Covid-19 pandemic
The limits of transparency
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures
Populism and Public Administration
Bureaucracy Between Populism and Technocracy
Organizational barriers to transparency
Neoliberal Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe
When does open government shut? Predicting government responses to citizen information requests
Public Management for Populists
Sunlight or Window Dressing? Local Government Compliance with South Africa's Promotion of Access to Information Act
The Strategy of Paired Comparison
Identifying transparency
The Populist Zeitgeist
The logic of counterfactual analysis in case-study explanation
O Populismo de direita no Brasil
| Citations per year | 5.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |