Governments, business, international bodies and local groups are turning to multi-
stakeholder processes to find practical ways forward. This book explains how MSPs can be …

International organizations, policy experts, and nongovernmental organizations promote
greater governmental transparency as a crucial reform to enhance accountability and curb …

Are democracies more transparent than other types of political regimes? Many people
believe that the presence of elections alone is not sufficient for a country to be considered …

E-government is increasingly being used to improve transparency in the government sector
and to combat corruption. Using institutional theory as an analytical perspective, this study …

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public
sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of …

Recent scholarship on transparency has been voluminous, and transparency policies
continue to garner international adherents through global initiatives such as the Open …

In the past two decades, governments from around the world have adopted access-to-
information laws at a rate unlike any other time in history. This reform in government …

Gender research has made a call for more transparency and accountability in academic
recruitment and selection in order to overcome the inequality practices that have led to an …

Interest in the political and economic consequences of transparency has grown significantly
over the past decade. The literature, however, has been hampered by methodological …

To what extent are global rule-of-law norms, which external actors promote in post-conflict
states, localized? Who decides whether global standards or local particularities prevail …