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100			_aRuijer, Erna, et al. _920958
245			_aThe politics of open government data: Understanding organizational responses to pressure for more transparency
260			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
300			_a50(3), Apr, 2020: p.260-274
520			_aThis article contributes to the growing body of literature within public management on open government data by taking a political perspective. We argue that open government data are a strategic resource of organizations and therefore organizations are not likely to share it. We develop an analytical framework for studying the politics of open government data, based on theories of strategic responses to institutional processes, government transparency, and open government data. The framework shows that there can be different organizational strategic responses to open data—varying from conformity to active resistance—and that different institutional antecedents influence these responses. The value of the framework is explored in two cases: a province in the Netherlands and a municipality in France. The cases provide insights into why governments might release datasets in certain policy domains but not in others thereby producing “strategically opaque transparency.” The article concludes that the politics of open government data framework helps us understand open data practices in relation to broader institutional pressures that influence government transparency.- Reproduced
650			_aOpen government data, Transparency, Organizational strategic responses, Politics _919218
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
906			_aOPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
942			_cAR