The Economics of Transparency in PoliticsAlbert Breton The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what level of obfuscation in politics is rational. The chapters are arranged in four parts. Part 1 is concerned with the manifestations of transparency and obfuscation in domestic democratic settings whilst Part 2 deals with the same realities but in an international context. Part 3 looks at corruption and Part 4 considers some of the implications of transparency and obfuscation for the working of governments and the formulation of public policies. |
Contents
Acquiescence to Opacity | 11 |
1 | 33 |
Citizens Knowledge Politicians Duplicity | 37 |
Transparency and Efficiency | 55 |
2 | 66 |
Liberalism Against Populism | 73 |
1 | 75 |
2 | 85 |
The Political | 123 |
Information Corruption and Measures for | 151 |
Cases For and Against TransparencyObfuscation | 173 |
1 | 178 |
Transparency in the Budget Process of a Bureaucratic | 189 |
1 | 196 |
Redistribution Decentralization and Constitutional Rules | 209 |
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