The Future of Transparency: Power, Pitfalls and Promises
The Future of Transparency: Power, Pitfalls and Promises
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透明度的未来：力量、陷阱和承诺
作者：
A. Mol
对透明度日益增长的关注并不是偶然和时髦的浪潮，很快就会被另一个及时的环境治理话题所取代。在环境政治中，透明度将继续存在并进一步发展，因为它承载了许多更广泛的社会发展。在评估透明度迄今取得的成就时，本文的结论是，总的来说，透明度对民主是积极的。但是，这种总体上积极的过去评估并不会自动延伸到未来，因为新的挑战（以及新的研究议程）就在前面。环境政治对透明度的日益重视，确保了它成为权力斗争的中心对象，在民主和环境影响方面产生不确定的结果。市场和国家寻求利用透明度安排来实现自己的目标，这可能不一定符合透明度、民主和参与之间假定的规范性联系。
The growing attention to transparency is not an accidental and fashionable wave, soon to be replaced by another timely topic in environmental governance. Transparency is here to stay and to further develop in environmental politics, as it piggy-backs on a number of wider social developments. In assessing the achievements of transparency to date, this article concludes that it has on balance been positive for democracy. But this overall positive past assessment does not automatically extend into the future, as new challenges (and thus new research agendas) lie ahead. The growing importance attached to transparency in environmental politics ensures that it becomes a central object of power struggles, with uncertain outcomes in terms of democracy as well as environmental effects. Markets and states seek to capture transparency arrangements for their own goals, which may not necessarily be in line with assumed normative linkages between transparency, democracy and participation.