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Book Synopsis The politics of freedom of information by : Ben Worthy
Download or read book The politics of freedom of information written by Ben Worthy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do governments pass freedom of information laws? The symbolic power and force surrounding FOI makes it appealing as an electoral promise but hard to disengage from once in power. However, behind closed doors compromises and manoeuvres ensure that bold policies are seriously weakened before they reach the statute book. The politics of freedom of information examines how Tony Blair's government proposed a radical FOI law only to back down in fear of what it would do. But FOI survived, in part due to the government's reluctance to be seen to reject a law that spoke of 'freedom', 'information' and 'rights'. After comparing the British experience with the difficult development of FOI in Australia, India and the United States – and the rather different cases of Ireland and New Zealand – the book concludes by looking at how the disruptive, dynamic and democratic effects of FOI laws continue to cause controversy once in operation.
Book Synopsis Troubling Transparency by : David E. Pozen
Download or read book Troubling Transparency written by David E. Pozen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Saving the Freedom of Information Act by : Margaret B. Kwoka
Download or read book Saving the Freedom of Information Act written by Margaret B. Kwoka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Freedom of Information Act is vital for democratic accountability. Understanding who uses it is key to re-centering its oversight purposes.
Book Synopsis The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK by : R. Hazell
Download or read book The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK written by R. Hazell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories in the national media, this book offers a unique insight into how the Freedom of Information Act 2000 really works.
Author :United States. Department of Justice. Federal Citizen Information Center Publisher : ISBN 13 :9781612210674 Total Pages :21 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Your Right to Federal Records by : United States. Department of Justice. Federal Citizen Information Center
Download or read book Your Right to Federal Records written by United States. Department of Justice. Federal Citizen Information Center and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act to obtain records from the federal government.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Freedom of Information Act by :
Download or read book Guide to the Freedom of Information Act written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an overview discussion of the Freedom of Information Act's (FOIA) exemptions, its law enforcement record exclusions, and its most important procedural aspects. 2009 edition. Issued biennially. Other related products: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103d Congress can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01228-1 Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974, 2015 Edition can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/027-000-01429-1
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information and the Right to Know by : Herbert N. Foerstel
Download or read book Freedom of Information and the Right to Know written by Herbert N. Foerstel and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation An examination of the origins of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), its effective use, the uneasy acceptance of the FOIA by federal agencies and the current impediments to its full application.
Book Synopsis The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act by : John J. Watkins
Download or read book The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act written by John J. Watkins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first edition in 1988, The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act has become the standard reference for the bench, the bar, and journalists for guidance in interpreting and applying the state’s open-government law. This sixth edition, published fifty years after the passage of the Act in 1967, builds upon its predecessors, incorporating later legislative enactments, judicial decisions, and Attorney General’s opinions to present a synthesis of the law of access to public records and meetings in Arkansas.
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information and the Developing World by : Colin Darch
Download or read book Freedom of Information and the Developing World written by Colin Darch and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, Freedom of Information and the Developing World identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen’s relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality of the pervasive politics of patronage that characterise much of African practice. Develops a discourse about the concept of FoI Discussion of the human rights claim appropriates the concepts of Hohfeldian analysis for more radical purposes in support of the idea that the state has a duty to implement FoI practices
Download or read book FOIA Update written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information Act Guide by :
Download or read book Freedom of Information Act Guide written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance by : Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
Download or read book Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance written by Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Freedom to Read by : American Library Association
Download or read book The Freedom to Read written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Right of Access to Public Information by : Hermann-Josef Blanke
Download or read book The Right of Access to Public Information written by Hermann-Josef Blanke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comparative study on access to public information in the context of the main legal orders worldwide(inter alia China,France,Germany,Japan,Russia,Sweden,United States).The international team of authors analyzes the Transparency- and Freedom-to-Information legislation with regard to the scope of the right to access, limitations of this right inherent in the respective national laws, the procedure, the relationship with domestic legislation on administrative procedure, as well as judicial protection. It particularly focuses on the Brazilian law establishing the right of access to information, which is interpreted as a benchmark for regulations in other Latin-American states.
Book Synopsis Public service broadcasting by : Mendel, Toby
Download or read book Public service broadcasting written by Mendel, Toby and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom of Information by : Matthew Burgess
Download or read book Freedom of Information written by Matthew Burgess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists is written to inform, instruct and inspire journalists on the investigative possibilities offered by the Freedom of Information Act. Covering exactly what the Act is, how to make FOI requests and how to use the Act to hold officials to account, Matt Burgess utilises expert opinions, relevant examples and best practice from journalists and investigators working with the Freedom of Information Act at all levels. The book is brimming with illuminating and relevant examples of the Freedom of Information Act being used by journalists, alongside a range of helpful features, including: • end-of-chapter lists of tips and learning points; • sections addressing the different areas of FOI requests; • text boxes on key thoughts and cases; • interviews with leading contemporary journalists and figures working with FOI requests. Supported by the online FOI Directory (www.foidirectory.co.uk), Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists is a must read for all those training or working as journalists on this essential tool for investigating, researching and reporting.
Book Synopsis People's Warrior by : Michael R. Lemov
Download or read book People's Warrior written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to believe that there was a time when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts. These and other consumer rights were created only after political battles in the decade between 1966 and 1976. This book is the story of that era and one of its leaders, Congressman John Moss. It describes key laws that were enacted by Congress despite political opposition. Moss fought for twelve years, against three presidents and, at times, his own party, for a freedom of information law that has stood the test of time and been copied around the world. He went on to challenge Wall Street in a battle to enact new investor protection laws.
