Government transparency measurement through prioritized distance operators

Government Information Transparency∗

This paper studies a model of announcements by a privately informed government about the future state of the economic activity in an economy subject to recurrent shocks and with distortions due to income taxation. Although transparent communication would ex ante be desirable, we find that even a benevolent government may ex-post be non-informative, in an attempt to countervail the tax distortio...

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...

Federal government unveils modest transparency initiative.

Transparency and Corruption: Does E-Government Help?

Through its pioneering surveys in recent years, the Transparency International (TI) has tried to gauge the extent of corruption in different countries, identify Government departments where corruption appears to be most rampant, and establish some reasons why it seems to grow. Two major factors that contribute to the growth of corruption are the low probability of discovery, and perceived immun...

Position paper: Including all audiences in the government loop: From transparency to empowerment through open government data

1. Abstract In response to the call for participation, this paper provides examples of what new government data is being used for. In the light of a more global context and the lagging of most nations in the area of OGD, the paper also suggests other possible global uses of OGD, including the leveraging of citizen education through appropriate representation of OGD, and the appropriate represen...