Freedom Of Information Law And Good Governance

Author : Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030836592

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This book argues that Sierra Leone's ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone's continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book's major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone's mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.

Author : Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030836580

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This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book’s major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone’s mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.

Author : David E. Pozen,Michael Schudson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231545808

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Troubling Transparency by David E. Pozen,Michael Schudson Pdf

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.

Author : Habib Zafarullah,Noore Alam Siddiquee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031358630

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Open Government and Freedom of Information by Habib Zafarullah,Noore Alam Siddiquee Pdf

The book examines the state of Open Government in Asia. Drawing on thirteen country case studies and one regional study, it analyses the application of Freedom of Information methods and assesses their implications for democratic governance, particularly transparency, accountability, participation, collaboration, inclusive policymaking and technology. The book also considers the usefulness of open participatory platforms that enable citizens’ ‘right to information’, and help them monitor and scrutinize governmental activities to ensure accountability, integrity and the quality of democracy. Contributors to the volume evaluate Open Government and Freedom of Information arrangements and relevant issues in a particular country and adjudge their performance. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, digital governance and technology.

Author : Andrew McDonald,Greg Terrill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349147298

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Open Government by Andrew McDonald,Greg Terrill Pdf

What does open government mean in practice? This book offers an authoritative and highly topical look at the implementation of reform from senior academics and civil servants. Britain's situation and future requirements are set in context by insights from other Westminster systems of government, namely Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. Each of these accounts is itself an original contribution to the literature on that country's experience. Throughout, the emphasis in upon freedom of information and privacy issues.

Author : Robert G. Vaughn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351566537

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Freedom of Information by Robert G. Vaughn Pdf

This volume contains articles examining freedom of information statutes, including those protecting government employees who expose official misconduct. Using United States laws as examples, the articles explore the relationship of these laws to administrative and constitutional theory in the United States. In addition, they demonstrate how varying conceptions of information illuminate the controversies in the application of these laws to the revolution in the electronic storage and retrieval of information. The articles allow the reader to speculate how the connection of these laws to liberal democratic theory explains their recent adoption in several countries and their international application.

Author : Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107113923

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The Quest for Good Governance by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Pdf

A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.

Author : Henk Addink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192578013

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Good Governance by Henk Addink Pdf

This book explores the creation, development, and impact of the concept of 'good governance'. It argues that, alongside the ideas of the rule of law and democracy, good governance acts as a third conceptual cornerstone of the modern state. Good governance can be viewed as a multilevel concept influenced by regional and international legal developments while being grounded in national administrative law. The book presents six principles of good governance: properness, transparency, participation, effectiveness, accountability, and human rights. The development of each of these principles on the national level is explored in a wide range of European contexts, and in Australia, Canada, and South Africa. As well as offering a fully up-to-date and comprehensive overview of administrative law in different jurisdictions, the book compares the implementation of the principles of good governance, taking into account international and European administrative law developments.

Author : Dacian C. Dragos,Polonca Kovač,Albert T. Marseille
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030094952

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The Laws of Transparency in Action by Dacian C. Dragos,Polonca Kovač,Albert T. Marseille Pdf

Dacian C. Dragos is Jean Monnet Professor of Administrative and European Law and Co-director of the Center for Good Governance Studies at the Babes Bolyai University, Romania. Since 2010 he has chaired the Law and Administration panel of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA). His research publications include several edited books, over 20 chapters in international books, and over 50 papers in scientific journals. Polonca Kovač is an Associate Professor of Administrative Law and Public Administration at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is as a steering committee member of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) and a co-director of the Law and Administration panel of the EGPA. She is an editor and author of numerous scientific articles and books, and an OECD/SIGMA expert. A. T. (Bert) Marseille is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a co-director of the Law and Administration panel of the EGPA, a member of the steering committee for the promotion of Empirical Legal Studies in the Netherlands, chair of the Section North of the Dutch Association for Public Administration, and an editor of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Bestuursrecht. This book examines the issue of free access to information as part of the openness and transparency principles. The free access to public information has become one of the most hotly contested aspects of contemporary government and public administration. Many countries in Europe have well-established Freedom of Information laws (FOIAs), while others have adopted them more recently. The problems that occur in the implementation of FOIAs are different due to the legal and institutional context; nevertheless, patterns of best practices and malfunctioning are comparable. The book analyses in comparative and empirical perspective the respective main challenges. Whilst the existing literature focusses on the legal provisions, this book offers practical insights through 13 national profiles and the EU level, on how effective the legal provisions of FOIAs really prove to be.

Author : Toby Mendel,Article 19 (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Freedom of information
ISBN : UOM:39015056799565

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The Public's Right to Know by Toby Mendel,Article 19 (Organization) Pdf

PRINCIPLE 7. Open meetings

Author : President Aigbokhan Esq,A D Badaiki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798598008393

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Freedom of Information Law, Practice and Procedure by President Aigbokhan Esq,A D Badaiki Pdf

Freedom of Information is an indispensible area of human life and the book emanates from a desire to help raise the level of awareness of all those connected with the right. A book that tries to x-ray issues touching on FOI in Nigeria must be regarded as a sacred document to be read and consulted when there is a doubt about a fundamental conception relating to FOI, accountability, open government and transparency. There is a dearth of materials on the subject matter of this book both globally and in Nigeria. The work is unique because it seeks to satisfy the procedural and substantive thirst of the researchers and practitioners. It has not been easy deciding which sub-topics to treat in this book, bearing in mind that many of those whom this book are directed will not be lawyers. In compiling a book of this specialty, the principal preliminary tasks lie in defining the scope of materials to be included and the approach to be adopted in relation to those materials. We have addressed the subject in a manner that provides a rounded, contextual explanation of Freedom of Information Act which goes beyond pure law and also adequately covers the field. There are thirteen chapters beginning with the history of Freedom of Information Act and sources of right to information. Chapter three seeks to answer the question whether right to information is a fundamental right. In chapter four, discussion focuses on enforcement procedure of right to information with particular reference to judicial review where request for information is denied. Defences to such an action occupy a central place in chapter five, while impact of right to privacy on access to information in Nigeria is examined in chapter six. Chapter seven gives an interpretative analysis of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. The extent to which the Freedom of Information Act is germane in governance, ensuring open government and serving as anti-corruption tools is the subject matter of chapter eight with nexus to chapter nine where Freedom of Information under open government partnership is examined. The scope of chapter twelve is comparative analysis of the Freedom of Information laws in the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Bangladesh, Canada and Australia, with particular emphasis on transplantation of relevant principles and institutions in those countries into Nigeria. Salient concluding remarks bring the book to a close in chapter thirteen.

Author : Mike Larsen,Kevin Walby
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780774823258

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Brokering Access by Mike Larsen,Kevin Walby Pdf

Access to information (ATI) is widely regarded as a fundamental democratic right. Yet in Canada there still exists a struggle between the public's quest for accountability and our government's culture of secrecy. Drawing together the perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and ATI advocates, Brokering Access explores the policies and practices surrounding access to information at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. This groundbreaking volume is the first of its kind to promote the idea that ATI should be used as a critical research strategy. It is a vital resource for scholars, policy makers, journalists, and anyone who is concerned about access to information and its effect on all Canadians.

Author : Maeve McDonagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 185800683X

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Freedom of Information Law by Maeve McDonagh Pdf

The new edition of Freedom of Information Law provides the user with a clear and comprehensive analysis of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, referring to decisions of the Information Commissioner and of the courts as well as to overseas FOI decisions. It also covers the separate legislative regime for access to environmental information. New to this edition * Deals with the Freedom of Information Act 2014 which replaces the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 - 2003 * Features numerous new decisions of the Information Commissioner * New High Court and Supreme Court decisions on FOI appeals are considered, including The Governors and Guardians Rotunda Hospital v Information Commissioner [2011] IESC 26, July 19, 2011. Key Features * An easy-to-understand reference that provides you with invaluable analysis and interpretation * A systematic and thorough explanation of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 * Up to date and including all important decisions of the Information Commissioner and case law * Each exemption provision is the subject of a full chapter * The system of review and appeal is thoroughly examined * Separate chapter on Access to Environmental Information * Explores in details the interplay between FOI and privacy/data protection Contents Background; The Freedom of Information Act 2014; Publication of Government Information, Records Management and Reasons for Administrative Decisions; Access; The Exemptions: General Issues; Meetings of the government; Deliberations of FOI bodies; Functions and Negotiations of FOI bodies; Parliamentary, Court and Certain Other Matters; Law Enforcement and Public Safety; Defence, Security and International Relations; Confidentiality; Commercially Sensitive Information Personal Information; Research and Natural Resources; Financial and Economic Interests of the State ; Enactments Relating to Non-Disclosure of Records; Access to and Amendment of Personal Records; Review and Enforcement;Access to Environmental Information; Freedom of Information and Data Protection; Freedom of Information and Archives About the author Professor Maeve McDonagh is an academic lawyer specialising in information law who has published widely in the field of information law. She has advised on the drafting and implementation of FOI legislation in various countries and she has been engaged as an expert on information law matters by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Professor McDonagh was Deputy Chair of the Press Council of Ireland from 2007 - 2013. In 2013, she was appointed by the Irish government to the FOI Implementation Review Group.

Author : Maeve McDonagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Freedom of information
ISBN : 1899738797

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Freedom of Information Law in Ireland by Maeve McDonagh Pdf

This book seeks to provide a clear and detailed explanation of the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1997. It begins with a discussion of the development of freedom of information laws internationally, both at domestic and international levels. The history of the Act in Ireland is then explored. Many of the Act's provisions are based on those of corresponding Australian and Canadian legislation. The book, therefore, draws extensively from the interpretation of such provisions in those jurisdictions. The relationship of the Act with existing Irish legislation relating to access to government information is also explained. The main focus of the book is upon the substance of the Act itself. It concentrates on the four main elements of the Act: * The right of access to government records * The duty of public bodies to publish information relating to their activities * The right to have incorrect personal records amended * The right to be given reasons for administrative decisions.

Author : Mendel, Toby
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Broadcasting
ISBN : 9789231042041

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Public service broadcasting by Mendel, Toby Pdf