To know is to act? Revisiting the impact of government transparency on corruption

S Schnell - Public Administration and Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transparency is expected to reduce corruption by enabling the public to uncover it and thus
hold officials accountable. This assumes citizens care about corruption and have …

Transparency and corruption: Measuring real transparency by a new index

A Mungiu‐Pippidi - Regulation & Governance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the salience of transparency in policy and democracy debates a global
measurement of transparency has always been missing. In its absence, measuring the …

Digital transparency and citizen participation: Evidence from the online crowdsourcing platform of the City of Sacramento

B Zhao, S Cheng, KJ Schiff, Y Kim - Government Information Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between digital transparency and citizens'
participation in government activity, specifically, online crowdsourcing. Many local …

Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption

V Kalesnikaite, MI Neshkova, S Ganapati - Governance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Prior research has examined the effect of e‐government on corruption but has only
considered perceived political corruption that differs from the actual corruption that citizens …

How does economic inequality shape conspiracy theories? Empirical evidence from China

ZX Zeng, CY Tian, JY Mao… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conspiracy theories tend to be prevalent, particularly in societies with high economic
inequality. However, few studies have examined the relationship between economic …

A critical look at using financial technology policy to promote the sustainable development goals

B Michael, N Koroleska, A Tai… - Sustainable …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
New financial technologies (FinTech) may not represent a new era for sustainable
development—at least not as currently conceived. Many of the gains espoused by the UN …

The divergent effects of agent-controlled transparency on corruption latency: Evidence from China

W Tu, T Gong, H Li - Government Information Quarterly, 2024 - Elsevier
The importance of government transparency in reducing corruption has been well
documented. However, the effects of different forms of transparency on containing corruption …

Fiscal transparency and tax morale: is the relationship shaped by perceptions of government performance and corruption?

HY Hsu - International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The potential of fiscal transparency to improve tax morale (or the willingness to pay taxes)
has been widely studied. However, the strength of the fiscal transparency-tax morale …

The impact of fiscal openness on public spending technical efficiency in developing countries

NA Elberry, F Naert, S Goeminne - Public Performance & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the impact of fiscal openness, defined as fiscal transparency and public
participation in budget processes, on public spending technical efficiency in developing …

[PDF][PDF] Defining Transparency: A Functional Approach: Eine Funktionsherangehensweise

RC Romero - JeDEM-eJournal of eDemocracy and Open …, 2023 - jedem.org
Transparency is a fuzzy concept within the governance literature; it is commonly linked,
through blurry categorisations, to other concepts in the political science and public …