More open, more democratic or better at hiding? Two decades of local government transparency in the UK (Record no. 529081)
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| Personal name | Worthy, Ben and Waugh, Megan |
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| Title | More open, more democratic or better at hiding? Two decades of local government transparency in the UK |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Local Government Studies |
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| Extent | 50(6), Dec, 2024: p.1062-1073 |
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| Summary, etc | Local government has long been the site of experiments and innovation in transparency. Since the 1990s waves of reforms have sought to open up local government in Britain, from the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in the 2000s to Open Data in the 2010s. This paper looks across the evidence to see how well these new transparency tools have worked, who is using them and why. It then moves to analyse what impact the changes have had on local government, in line with hopes of campaigners and fears of (some) politicians. Have reforms succeeded in making local government more open, more accountable and more participative, and in what situations? Or have they, as some claim, simply driven decision-making into other arenas, and made local bodies ‘better at hiding’? Finally, how does transparency sit with the fragmented and disjointed landscape of local politics today, from outsourcing and devolution to financial crisis?- Reproduced https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03003930.2024.2417222 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Transparency, Freedom of information, UK, Local government, Openness. |
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| Main entry heading | Local Government Studies |
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