Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency

ISBN-13: 9780521876179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 300 str.

Archon Fung; Mary Graham; David Weil

Opis

Which SUVs are most likely to rollover? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water authorities, and others to improve their products and practices. Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies. At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens. But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies, Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers, and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.

Recenzje

'This rich, carefully researched, well balanced, and readily accessible study shows us that good governance, with legislators at the local, state or national levels in the lead, is surely difficult but far from unattainable. This hard nosed scholarship demonstrating, as the authors themselves discovered, that pragmatism about both policy expectations and policy results should prevail among political leaders and citizens alike.' Perspectives on Politics

Spis treści

1. Governance by transparency; 2. An unlikely policy innovation; 3. Designing information-based regulation; 4. What makes disclosure work; 5. What makes disclosure policies sustainable?; 6. International transparency; 7. Toward collaborative transparency; 8. The future of disclosure; Appendix: Eighteen major cases.