Advancing excellence and public trust in government / / edited by Cal Clark and Don-Terry Veal |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (124 p.) |
Disciplina | 352.8/8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClarkCal <1945->
VealDon-Terry |
Soggetto topico |
Transparency (Ethics) in government - United States
Transparency (Ethics) in government - United States - States |
ISBN |
1-283-23366-5
9786613233660 0-7391-4546-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government; I: The Challenge; 1 The Challenge of Resurrecting the Public Trust; 2 Serving the Public to Restore the Public Trust; II: Promoting Transparency; 3 Promoting Transparency in Local Governments; 4 Bringing Transparency to Public Budgeting; 5 Using the Internet to Create Transparency for State Budgets; 6 Transparency in the Contracting Process; 7 Higher Education as Transparency Challenged; 8 Transparency and Cleaning Up Local Governments; 9 Measuring Government Performance and Officials' Qualifications
10 A "Bottom-Up" Approach to State Transparency11 Issues in Transparency and Restoring the Public Trust; III: Performance Measures and Reform; 12 Measuring Government Performance to Promote Transparency; 13 Transparency and Measuring What Governments Do; 14 Targeted Transparency; 15 Transparency in the Broader Context of Governance and Civic Engagement; IV: Transforming General Governance; 16 Making a Difference in People's Lives to Regain the Public Trust; 17 The Need to Establish the Purpose of Government; 18 Civic Engagement and Transparency for Regaining the Public Trust; Index Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815889403321 |
Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency / / Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil |
Autore | Fung Archon <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 352.3/8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GrahamMary <1944->
WeilDavid <1961-> |
Soggetto topico |
Government information - Access control - United States
Transparency (Ethics) in government - United States Disclosure of information - Government policy - United States Disclosure of information - Law and legislation |
ISBN |
1-107-17246-2
1-280-81587-6 0-511-27570-6 0-511-27500-5 0-511-27347-9 0-511-32169-4 0-511-51053-5 0-511-27426-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Governance by transparency -- The new power of information -- Transparency informs choice -- Transparency as missed opportunity -- A real-time experiment -- Transparency success and failure -- How the book is organized -- 2. An unlikely policy innovation -- An unplanned invention -- The struggle toward openness -- Why disclosure? -- 3. Designing transparency policies -- Improving on-the-job safety : one goal, many methods -- Disclosure to create incentives for change -- What targeted transparency policies have in common -- Standards, market incentives, or targeted transparency? -- 4. What makes transparency work? -- A complex chain reaction -- New information embedded in user decisions -- New information embedded in discloser decisions -- Obstacles : preferences, biases, and games -- How do transparency policies measure up? -- Crafting effective transparency policies -- 5. What makes transparency sustainable? -- Crisis drives financial disclosure improvements -- Sustainable policies -- The politics of disclosure -- Humble beginnings : prospects for sustainable transparency -- Two illustrations -- Shifting conditions drive changes in sustainability -- 6. International transparency -- How do international transparency policies work? -- Why now? -- From private committee to public mandate : international corporate financial reporting -- Improving a moribund system : international disease reporting -- The limits of international transparency : labeling genetically modified foods -- 7. Toward collaborative transparency -- Innovation at the edge -- Technology expands capacities of users, disclosers, and government -- Four emerging policies -- Challenges to collaborative transparency -- New roles for users, disclosers, and government -- Looking ahead : complementary generations of transparency -- 8. Targeted transparency in the information age -- Two possible futures -- When transparency won't work -- Crafting effective policies -- The road ahead -- Appendix : eighteen major cases -- Targeted transparency in the United States -- Targeted transparency in the international context. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819699803321 |
Fung Archon <1968-> | ||
New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Governmental transparency in the path of administrative reform / / Suzanne J. Piotrowski |
Autore | Piotrowski Suzanne J. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (151 p.) |
Disciplina | 352.3/670973 |
Soggetto topico |
Government information - Access control - United States
Administrative agencies - United States - Management Freedom of information - United States Public records - United States - Management Transparency (Ethics) in government - United States |
ISBN |
0-7914-8020-8
1-4294-7157-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Sunlight is the best disinfectant -- Two governmental narratives juxtaposed -- The impact of performance management -- The impact of customer service and employee empowerment -- The impact of contracting -- Analysis. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822303603321 |
Piotrowski Suzanne J. <1973-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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