HATALMAS VÁLASZTÉK
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ISBN | 9780231184991 |
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Szerző | Pozen David E. |
Kiadó | Columbia Univ Pr |
Kötés | Paperback |
A kiadás éve | 2018 |
Oldalak száma | 352 |
Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement's canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century's challenges.
Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad--how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA