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David Weil delivered the talk "Can Transparency Improve Health Outcomes?” at the Harvard School of Public Health, Education and Research Council, Boston, MA at the Harvard Medical School, February 11, 2008.
The book was reviewed in the December 2007 issue of Perspectives on Politics and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Winter 2008).
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The Transparency Policy Project, directed by Archon Fung, Mary Graham and David Weil, conducts in-depth research on the political economy of U.S. and international transparency systems.
The Project has constructed a framework for assessing the sustainability and effectiveness of government-mandated systems designed to provide the public with critical information to improve public health and safety, reduce risks to investors, minimize corruption, and improve public services.
Their research has resulted in a book, Full Disclosure, which explains what went wrong with the initial promise of transparency policies and how a new approach could result in regulations that do much more to empower those the information was meant to help.
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Interactive online discussion—register for free now!
Harvard's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation:
Online Event on Transparency—Frontiers and Failures
February 25, 2008 at 2 pm EST
Join us for an interactive discussion on transparency. Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil will examine why some transparency policies succeed and others fail based on their recent book, Full Disclosure: The Perils of and Promise of Transparency. For more information about this free online event, visit the Ash Institute's event page. Registration is required.
Information determines the quality of
the choices that people make. Unfortunately,
the United State’s most important public
information systems are broken.
Find out why and what can be done about it in the book FULL DISCLOSURE, published by Cambridge University Press.
In principle, transparency policies are an ingenious innovation in governance. They require companies and other organizations to reveal the facts about the public risks or flaws in critical public services in formats that allow consumers and citizens to compare products and practices. But national crises—from Enron’s collapse to Firestone’s exploding tires—provide tragic evidence that information that is presented to the public is often incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date.
Full Disclosure takes an in-depth look at the promise, the reality and the potential of transparency regulation, debunking myths and describing how transparency policies could work much more effectively on the public’s behalf.