Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency

Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency / Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fung, Archon, 1968-
Other Authors: Graham, Mary, 1944-, Weil, David, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Government information > Access control > United States.
Transparency in government > United States.
Disclosure of information > Government policy > United States.
Disclosure of information > Law and legislation.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Governance by transparency
  • The new power of information
  • Transparency informs choice
  • Transparency as missed opportunity
  • A real-time experiment
  • Transparency success and failure
  • How the book is organized
  • 2. An unlikely policy innovation
  • An unplanned invention
  • The struggle toward openness
  • Why disclosure?
  • 3. Designing transparency policies
  • Improving on-the-job safety : one goal, many methods
  • Disclosure to create incentives for change
  • What targeted transparency policies have in common
  • Standards, market incentives, or targeted transparency?
  • 4. What makes transparency work?
  • A complex chain reaction
  • New information embedded in user decisions
  • New information embedded in discloser decisions
  • Obstacles : preferences, biases, and games
  • How do transparency policies measure up?
  • Crafting effective transparency policies
  • 5. What makes transparency sustainable?
  • Crisis drives financial disclosure improvements
  • Sustainable policies
  • The politics of disclosure
  • Humble beginnings : prospects for sustainable transparency
  • Two illustrations
  • Shifting conditions drive changes in sustainability
  • 6. International transparency
  • How do international transparency policies work?
  • Why now?
  • From private committee to public mandate : international corporate financial reporting
  • Improving a moribund system : international disease reporting
  • The limits of international transparency : labeling genetically modified foods
  • 7. Toward collaborative transparency
  • Innovation at the edge
  • Technology expands capacities of users, disclosers, and government
  • Four emerging policies
  • Challenges to collaborative transparency
  • New roles for users, disclosers, and government
  • Looking ahead : complementary generations of transparency
  • 8. Targeted transparency in the information age
  • Two possible futures
  • When transparency won't work
  • Crafting effective policies
  • The road ahead
  • Appendix : eighteen major cases
  • Targeted transparency in the United States
  • Targeted transparency in the international context.

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