President Obama’s muddy transparency record
Posted: March 6, 2012 Filed under: Transparency Leave a comment »http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73606.html
Proposed FOIA Update: Government Should Be Allowed to Pretend Records Don’t Exist
Posted: October 26, 2011 Filed under: Corruption, Transparency, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Proposed FOIA Update: Government Should Be Allowed to Pretend Records Don’t Exist
Disclosure by Politicians
Posted: April 22, 2010 Filed under: Government Transparency, Transparency Leave a comment »“We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by members of Parliament in 175 countries. Although twothirdsof the countries have some disclosure laws, less than one-third make disclosures available to the public, and less than one-sixth of potentially useful information is publicly available in practice, on average. Countries that are richer, more democratic, and have free press have more disclosure. Public disclosure, but not internal disclosure to parliament, is positively related to government quality, including lower corruption.”
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/Disclosure_by_Politicians_AEJAPP_final.pdf
