Transparency in multilateral climate politics: Furthering (or distracting from) accountability?

Civil Society, Corporate Accountability and the Politics of Climate Change

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.

Divisive Politics and Accountability

The paper analyzes a political accountability game with an electorate of ’partisan’ and ’independent’ voters. It is shown that politicians have a strategic incentive to engage in ’divisive politics’, that is, to force some independent voters to take sides, even if the direct electoral benefits are higher for their opponents than for themselves. By polarizing the electorate, the incumbent politi...

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...

Accountability, Transparency, and Inßation Targeting

Inßation targeting regimes deÞne a performance measure for the central bank. A regime that places a large (small) weight on achieivng the target is analogous to a high (low) power incentive scheme. High powered incentive structures promote accountability but may distort stabilization policy. The optimal power under inßation targeting is derived under perfect and imperfect information. The funda...