History of Transparency in Politics and Society

Jens Ivo Engels, Frédéric Monier, Jens Ivo Engels, Frédéric Monier

• Editorial: V&R Unipress
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783847011552
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: History
• Categoría: History Reference

Today, the demand for transparency is omnipresent. In particular, transparency is considered a prerequisite for good governance, for political participation and democracy. On closer inspection, however, transparency proves to be ambivalent. For complete transparency has not yet been achieved anywhere. Moreover, measures to increase transparency can have the opposite effect and stir up mistrust. Historians are just beginning to discover this topic. The volume assembles contributions covering European history since the 19th century. The contributors focus on political and cultural history, but include also economic and media history as well as the history of ideas. They analyse publicly debated demands and efforts for transparency, conceived as the access to information or ist disclosure.

Índice

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Jens Ivo Engels / Frédéric Monier: Researching the History of Transparency: Introduction
• Body
• Olivier Meuwly: Between Anarchism and Liberalism. The first Debates on the Idea of a Transparent Society
• Silvia Marton: “Transparency” and “corruption” in Romanian electoral politics (‍1‍8‍6‍6‍–‍1‍9‍1‍4‍)
• Alexandra Alina Iancu: Transparency as amplifier of democratic dysfunctions. Party finance and party quasi-constitutionalisation in interwar Romania
• Sandra Zimmermann: Between “clarity” and “darkness”. The Role of Public Disclosure in the Barmat-Parliamentary-Committees (1925)
• Florian Altenhöner: Selective Transparency. Non-state intelligence services in Germany, 1‍9‍1‍8‍/ 1‍9‍3‍3
• Harm Kaal: Transparency in postwar Dutch political culture, 1945–1980s
• Vojin Saa Vukadinović: “Let me make one thing perfectly clear”. Richard Nixon and the language of transparency
• Ronald Kroeze / Sjoerd Keulen: “More exciting than Watergate, more real than Dynasty”. Transparency's rise: the Dutch RSV-inquiry in the context of the 1980s
• Martin Mainka: Mass Media as Transparency Actors. The Debate on Disclosure Practices of Der Spiegel during the Flick-affair (1980s)
• Eric Dehay / Nathalie Lévy: A short history of transparency and central banks in the academic literature
• Authors and editors