Transparency, Power, and Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparency, Power, and Control write by Christoph A. Hafner. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Transparency, Power, and Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than twenty countries to reflect on the growing importance of transparency, power and control in our international community and how these concerns and ideas have been examined, used and interpreted in a range of national and international contexts. Contributors explore these issues from a range of overlapping concerns and perspectives, such as semiotic, sociolinguistic, psychological, philosophical, and visual in diverse socio-political, administrative, institutional, as well as legal contexts. The collection examines the ways in which 'actors' in our society - legislators, politicians, activists, and artists - have provoked public discourses to confront these issues.
Reclaiming Accountability
Reclaiming Accountability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reclaiming Accountability write by Heidi Kitrosser. This book was released on 2015-01-06. Reclaiming Accountability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly that this is not the case—and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can result from “presidentialism,” or constitutional arguments for broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist arguments—including “supremacy” and “unitary executive theory”—she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles. Kitrosser’s own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power, through which we could reclaim government accountability.
Transparent
Transparent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparent write by David Richardson. This book was released on 2016-08. Transparent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now anyone can quickly and easily see through the potent influences of media, culture, government, business, and education using the power of assumptions.
Transparency in a New Global Order
Transparency in a New Global Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparency in a New Global Order write by Christina Garsten. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Transparency in a New Global Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favour as an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. Calls for transparency have been directed towards states, markets, corporations and national political processes as well as towards large institutions such as the European Union. Focusing on empirically rich case studies, the contributors explore the ideas and practices of transparency in different contexts, encouraging a discussion of the many facets of the term and its strengths, ambiguities and limitations. They aim to shed light on the powerful global discourse and practices contained in the concept, and to fill a gap in the literature since few attempts have, until now, been made to examine the actual content and practice of transparency. Also discussed are the complex negotiations through which it is determined what should be displayed and what should remain hidden, the uses of power and control, and the processes through which transparency is, or is not, achieved. This analysis of the concepts, models and metaphors that guide and shape organizational, social and aesthetical practices today will provide a much-needed contribution to the literature for academics, researchers and students focusing on these areas.
Transparency in International Law
Transparency in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transparency in International Law write by Andrea Bianchi. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Transparency in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While its importance in domestic law has long been acknowledged, transparency has until now remained largely unexplored in international law. This study of transparency issues in key areas such as international economic law, environmental law, human rights law and humanitarian law brings together new and important insights on this pressing issue. Contributors explore the framing and content of transparency in their respective fields with regard to proceedings, institutions, law-making processes and legal culture, and a selection of cross-cutting essays completes the study by examining transparency in international law-making and adjudication.
