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Introduction: Troubling Transparency, David E. Pozen, Michael Schudson
Introduction: Troubling Transparency, David E. Pozen, Michael Schudson
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Transparency is a value in the ascendance. Across the globe, the past several decades have witnessed a spectacular explosion of legislative reforms and judicial decisions calling for greater disclosure about the workings of public institutions. Freedom of information laws have proliferated, claims of a constitutional or supra-constitutional "right to know" have become commonplace, and an international transparency lobby has emerged as a civil society powerhouse. Open government is seen today in many quarters as a foundation of, if not synonymous with, good government.
At the same time, a growing number of scholars, advocates, and regulators have begun to raise hard …