Gauging the Impact of Transparency Policies
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Michener, Gregory
署名单位：
Getulio Vargas Foundation
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
DOI：
10.1111/puar.13011
发表日期：
2019
页码：
136-139
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摘要：
To what extent do transparency policies generate positive impacts? This seemingly rhetorical question has become the subject of increasing contention, partly because of two research-based biases. First, researchers have been blinded by metrics and method. Using tools that are often suited to gauging the gradual, diffuse, and indirect effects of most transparency policies, research has found unsurprisingly spotty evidence of impact. Transparency studies would benefit from greater use of complementary approaches, such as careful tracing of impact processes and indicators, combined with sensible counter factual reasoning. Second, researchers have been looking for impact with blinkered vision. In particular, a thematic fixation on accountability and participation has monopolized attention. Key preconditions such as compliance with and implementation of transparency policies remain relatively neglected, as do other areas of potential impact, including capacity building, how actors are leveraging previously restricted streams of information, and transparency's role in improving policy coordination and communication.