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.
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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.
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Notes on Contributors Preface PART I: BRITAIN Freedom of Information: the Constitutional Aspects; V. Bogdanor Open Government: the Development of Policy in the United Kingdom in the 1990s; D. Wilkinson Archives and Open Government; A. McDonald Privacy and Openness: Data Protection, Privacy and Confidentiality; E. France Balancing Privacy and Freedom of Information: Policy Options in the United Kingdom; R. Hazell PART II: OTHER WESTMINSTER SYSTEMS The Rise and Decline of Freedom of Information in Australia; G. Terrill Open Government in New Zealand; J. Aitken Freedom of Information and Open Government in Canada; R.P. Gillis Developing Freedom of Information Legislation in Ireland: G. Kearney and A. Stapleton Appendix: Post-war Information Access Legislation in Western Democracies Bibliography Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781349147311
Publisert
1998-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet