Full Disclosure

The Perils and Promise of Transparency

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23390261
AutoresArchon Fung (0009-0003-0629-6762, Harvard University Press), Mary Graham (0000-0002-9702-437X, Harvard University Press), David Weil (0000-0002-1092-6056)
Ano2007
Páginas304
Data de publicação2007-03-05
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoFull Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9780521699617
WikidataQ19038274
OpenAlexW4384103844
Open LibraryOL26806940M
ISBN9780521699617
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas106
Referências citadas45

Governments employ public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency policies often produce information that is incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors, workers, and community residents who could benefit from them. Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their everyday choices. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public relations · Transparency (behavior) · Finance · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Public Policy and Administration Research · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Disclosure of information · Freedom of information · Government information