Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency /
Governments in recent decades have employed 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,...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| 在线阅读: | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510533 |
| 总结: | Governments in recent decades have employed 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, as Full Disclosure shows 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9780511510533 (ebook) 9780521876179 (hardback) 9780521699617 (paperback) 9780521876179 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511510533 |