(In)visible European Government

ISBN-13: 9781032191508 / Twarda / 2023 / 360 str.

Opis

This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 – Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Maarten Hillebrandt and Ida Koivisto, Introduction: European Government Transparency beyond the Slogans

 

PART I

Chapter 2 – Päivi Leino-Sandberg, Transparency as a Critical Research Agenda: Engaging with the EU Institutions on Access to Documents

Chapter 3 – Liisa Leppävirta, What is the Purpose of Regulation 1049/2001? An Empirical Analysis of Member State Positions  

Chapter 4 – Marlen Heide and Sofia Wickberg, Interpretive Approaches in Transparency Studies - Gaining New Perspectives on Old Problems

Chapter 5 – Milka Sormunen and Davide Gnes, Learning Through Rejection: Studying the Informalisation of EU Readmission Policy with Access to Documents Requests

PART II

Chapter 6 –Ida Koivisto, The Human Face of Legal Transparency? Performance in Action

Chapter 7 –Clare Birchall, Toward Radical Transparency

Chapter 8 – Emmanuel Alloa, Escaping the Transparency Trap: In Defense of Playacting

Chapter 9 – Alexander Ingrams, Algorithms and the Open Society: New Approaches to Information, Transparency and Accountability

Chapter 10 – Dorota Mokrosinska, Government Transparency: Dispelling the Myth

PART III

Chapter 11 – Stéphanie Novak, “Off paper”: the Transparency Dilemma in EU Institutions

Chapter 12 – Alexander Hoppe, Transparency as Enabling Citizen-participation: The Quality of Public Information on EU Decision-making Processes

Chapter 13 – Melanie Fink and Maarten Hillebrandt, Access to documents and the EU agency Frontex: growing pains or outright obstruction?

Chapter 14 – Gijs Jan Brandsma, The Council Presidency, brought to you by Coca-Cola: Transparency about Commercial Sponsoring    

Chapter 15 – Emilia Korkea-aho, EU Agencies and Lobbying Transparency Rules: A Case Study on the Islandization of Transparency?

Chapter 16– Marta Maroni, Before Transparency: the Digital Service Act and the Legitimization of Platform Power

 

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Chapter 17 – Deirdre Curtin: Epilogue

O autorze

Maarten Hillebrandt is Assistant Professor of Public Management at the Department of Public Administration and Organisational Sciences, Utrecht University (Netherlands).

 

Päivi Leino-Sandberg is Professor of Transnational European Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of its Master's Programme in Global Governance Law (Finland).

 

Ida Koivisto is Associate Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki (Finland).