Research Handbook on Transparency

Padideh Ala’i, Robert G. Vaughn (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2016
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78347-785-2 (ISBN)

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In recent years the concept of transparency has received much attention, but few have approached the topic from a critical standpoint. This Handbook explores the different meanings and applications of transparency and their many implications.The expert contributors identify the goals, purposes and ramifications of transparency while presenting both its advantages and shortcomings. Through this framework, they explore transparency from a number of international and comparative perspectives. Some chapters emphasize cultural and national aspects of the issue, with country-specific examples from China, Mexico, the US and the UK, while others focus on transparency within global organizations such as the World Bank and the WTO. A number of relevant legal considerations are also discussed, including freedom of information laws, financial disclosure of public officials and whistleblower protection.

A diverse and unique volume, the Research Handbook on Transparency will prove an essential reference for scholars, policy makers, practitioners and legal reform advocates.

Contributors: Padideh Ala'i, J. Ackerman, A.J. Brown, K. Clark, M. D'Orsi, S. Dreyfus, C. Embree, E. Fisher, H.P. Glenn, H. Ala Hamoudi, J.W. Head, D.B. Hunter, W. Liu, J.S. Lubbers, D.J. Metcalfe, S. Routray, I.E. Sandoval, W. Vandekerckhove, R.G. Vaughn

Edited by Padideh Ala’i, Professor of Law and Robert G. Vaughn, Professor of Law and A. Allen King Scholar Emeritus, American University, Washington College of Law, US

CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION

PART IFRAMEWORKS FOR TRANSPARENCY
1. Transparency and Closure
H. Patrick Glenn

2. The Relationship between Transparency, Whistleblowing and Public Trust
A. J. Brown, Wim Vandekerckhove and Suelette Dreyfus

3. Exploring the Legal Architecture of Transparency
Elizabeth Fisher

4. The Associations of Judicial Transparency with Administrative Transparency
Robert G. Vaughn

PART IICULTURAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSPARENCY
5. Opposing Legal Transparency in Dynastic China: The Persuasive Logic of Confucianist Views on Legal Opaqueness
John W. Head

6. Transparency and the Shi’i Clerical Elite
Haider Al Hamoudi

7. Transparency under Dispute: Public Relations, Bureaucracy, and Democracy in Mexico
Irma Eréndira Sandoval

8. When Transparency Meets Politics: The Case of Mexico’s Electoral Ballots
John Mill Ackerman

9. The Role of the Courts in China’s Progress Toward Transparency
Liu Wenjing

PART III.LEGAL APPROACHES TO TRANSPARENCY
10. The History of Government Transparency
Daniel J. Metcalfe

11. The Long and Winding Road to Transparency in the UK
Shonali Routray

12. Transparency in Policymaking—The (Mostly) Laudable Example of the U.S. Rulemaking System
Jeffrey S. Lubbers

13. Faux Transparency: Ethics, Privacy, and the Demise of the STOCK Act’s Massive Online Disclosure of Employees’ Finances
Kathleen Clark and Cheryl Embree

PART IV.GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND TRANSPARENCY
14. Transparency at the World Bank
Daniel J. Metcalfe

15. The Emerging Norm of Transparency in International Environmental Governance
David B. Hunter

16. Transparency in International Economic Relations and the Role of the WTO
Padideh Ala'i & Matthew D'Orsi

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.03.2016
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-78347-785-7 / 1783477857
ISBN-13	978-1-78347-785-2 / 9781783477852
Zustand	Neuware