Contested meanings of inclusiveness, accountability and transparency in trade policymaking

Government Transparency and Policymaking

This paper identifies conditions under which voters are better off not knowing the policy choices of incumbents: we show that government transparency can actually lower voter welfare. To do so, we analyze a model of political agency where voters face two forms of uncertainty: uncertainty about the incumbent’s policy preferences and uncertainty about the relationship between policies and outcome...

Political accountability and sequential policymaking

We develop a model of political accountability with sequential policy making. Consistent with empirical observations, equilibrium behavior by the policymaker overemphasizes the late stages of the policy-making process. The reason is that the overseer faces a political time inconsistency problem—she is tempted to revise her retention rule in the middle of the policy-making process. If the overse...

Transparency and accountability

EMBO Molecular Medicine is enriched by a number of innovative policies designed to enhance the editorial process: peer review process files, de-emphasis of confidential referee comments and cross-refereeing.

Transparency and Policymaking at the Supreme Court

Rules transparency and political accountability

Rules of allocation and redistribution in the public sector are often less contingent on available information than normative theory would suggest. This paper offers a political economy explanation. Under different rules, even if the observable outcomes of policies remain the same, the informational content which can be extracted by these observations is different. Less contingent rules allow c...