Identifying Transparency
Identifying Transparency
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识别透明度
DOI：
10.3233/ip-130299
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Katherine Bersch
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作者：
G. Michener;Katherine Bersch
最近关于透明度的学术研究大量涌现，透明度政策继续通过开放政府伙伴关系等全球倡议获得国际支持。然而，现有的学术研究未能解决什么构成“透明度”，什么不构成“透明度”的经验参数。这一空白导致误用和滥用，损害了这一术语的分析效用和所谓“透明度”政策的完整性。本文提供了识别和评估透明度的框架和词汇表，这取决于两个必要且共同充分的条件：信息的可见性及其可推断性——从中得出准确结论的能力。通过分解识别透明度的这两个条件，本文为透明度质量的新兴研究议程提供了一个框架。
Recent scholarship on transparency has been voluminous, and transparency policies continue to garner international adherents through global initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership. Yet extant scholarship has failed to address the empirical parameters for what constitutes 'transparency' and what does not. This lacuna gives way to misuses and abuses, jeopardizing the analytical utility of the term and the integrity of so-called 'transparency' policies. This article provides a framework and a vocabulary for identifying and evaluating transparency, which depends on two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions: the visibility of information, and its inferability --the ability to draw accurate conclusions from it. By disaggregating these two conditions for identifying transparency, this article provides a framework for the emerging research agenda on the quality of transparency.