THE BOOK

Table of Contents for
Full Disclosure: The Perils and Prospects of Transparency

Preface
Chapter 1: Governance by Transparency
The New Power of Information
Transparency Informs Choice
Transparency as Missed Opportunity
A Real-Time Experiment
Transparency Success and Failure
How the Book Is Organized
Chapter 2: An Unlikely Policy Innovation
An Unplanned Invention
The Struggle Toward Openness
Why Disclosure?
Chapter 3: Designing Transparency Policies
Improving On-the-Job Safety: One Goal, Many Methods
Disclosure to Create Incentives for Change
What Targeted Transparency Policies Have in Common
Standards, Market Incentives, or Targeted Transparency?

Chapter 4: What Makes Transparency Work?
A Complex Chain Reaction
New Information Embedded in User Decisions
New Information Embedded in Discloser Decisions
Obstacles: Preferences, Biases, and Games
How Do Transparency Policies Measure Up?
Crafting Effective Transparency Policies
Chapter 5: What Makes Transparency Sustainable?
Crisis Drives Financial Disclosure Improvements
Sustainable Policies
The Politics of Disclosure
Humble Beginnings: Prospects for Sustainable Transparency
Two Illustrations
Shifting Conditions Drive Changes in Sustainability
Chapter 6:  International Transparency
How Do International Transparency Policies Work?
Why Now?
From Private Committee to Public Mandate: International Corporate Financial Reporting
Improving a Moribund System: International Disease Reporting
The Limits of International Transparency: Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods
Chapter 7: Toward Collaborative Transparency
Innovation at the Edge
Technology Expands Capacities of Users, Disclosers, and Government
Four Emerging Policies
Challenges to Collaborative Transparency
New Roles for Users, Disclosers, and Government
Looking Ahead: Complementary Generations of Transparency
Chapter 8: Targeted Transparency in the Information Age
Two Possible Futures
When Transparency Won’t Work
Crafting Effective Policies
The Road Ahead
APPENDIX: Eighteen Major Cases
Targeted Transparency in the United States
Targeted Transparency in the International Context
Notes
Bibliography
Index