We explore the effect of transparency of fiscal institutions on the scale of government and gubernatorial popularity using a formal model of accountability. We construct an index of fiscal transparency for the American states from detailed budgetary information. With crosssection data for 1986-1995, we find that on average and controlling for other influential factors fiscal transparency increa...

This article reports a pioneering case study of a crowdsourced law-reform process in Finland. In the crowdsourcing experiment, the public was invited to contribute to the law-reform process by sharing their knowledge and ideas for a better policy. This article introduces a normative design framework of five principles for crowdsourced policymaking: inclusiveness, accountability, transparency, m...

Administration. DOI: 10.1111/puar.12303. citizens has enabled them to bypass questionable audit processes and actually increase the accountability of public bodies. After grassroots organizations demanded that the details of fi nancial transactions be published outside public buildings in the spirit of transparency, they taught groups of young people (many of whom had little education) to inter...

This article discusses how to understand the manager of Zakat Charity Agency (BAZ) interprets accountability in managing zakat, infaq, and shadaqah (ZIS). Accountability management infaq (ZIS) is needed build trust related parties, such as muzakki, mustahiq, government society a whole. In creating good zakat governance system, it has characteristics that there must be transparency management, w...

We propose publishing L2TAP privacy logs to facilitate privacy auditing tasks that involve multiple auditors, an increasingly common requirement in the context of social computing and big data driven science. Our proposal utilizes two ontologies, L2TAP and SCIP, designed for deployment in a Linked Data environment. L2TAP provides provenance enabled logging of events. SCIP synthesizes contextual...

Machine learning systems are increasingly used to support public sector decision-making across a variety of sectors. Given concerns around accountability in these domains, and amidst accusations of intentional or unintentional bias, there have been increased calls for transparency of these technologies. Few, however, have considered how logics and practices concerning transparency have been und...