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The call for transparency is all around us. It has grown exponentially over the last decades: states, global institutions, and even private enterprises have sought to bolster their legitimacy by opening their proceedings to stakeholders. The idea that transparency is inherently good for
institutions and society in general has become unquestionable, but at the same time, what is meant by transparency has become harder and harder to pin down.
The Transparency Paradox is a compact theoretical account of the hidden functioning logic of the ideal of transparency and its legal manifestations. The discussion moves from analysis of transparency as a concept to transparency as a governance ideal, with its promise and perils. How does law
influence the creation of transparency? Is transparency a global (legal) value? Can it be? The position of the beholder and the representation of governance institutions are elaborated, and the reality principle, on which transparency is premised, is questioned.
The book creates a matrix for future research and socio-legal imagining, and it encourages analysis of both the current call for transparency as well as declining belief in facts and truth. Perhaps the legitimacy produced by transparency practices is enough to enable public debate and democratic
control of power. The future will tell.
The Transparency Paradox
by Koivisto, IdaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2022-10-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Ida Koivisto, Associate Professor of Public Law, University of Helsinki
Ida Koivisto is associate professor of public law at University of Helsinki. She is a member of both The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights and The Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research in University of Helsinki.
Table of Contents
The Opacity of Transparency
1. The Era of Transparency
2. Transparency as a Medium
3. The Eye of the Beholder
The Promise of Transparency
4. Transparency and Social Life
5. Transparency and Power
6. Transparency and Law
The Reality of Transparency
7. The Discursification of Transparency
8. The Future of Transparency: from Representation to Simulation?
9. The Truth-Legitimacy Tradeoff
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