The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World

Edited by Ann Florini

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May, 2007
Cloth, 376 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14158-1
$34.95 / £23.95

Foreword, by Joseph Stiglitz

Introduction: The Battle Over Transparency, by Ann Florini

Part 1: National Stories



1. India: Grassroots Initiatives, by Shekhar Singh

2. Toward a More Open China?, by Jamie P. Horsley

3. Open Government in China: Practice and Problems, by Hanhua Zhou

4. Central and Eastern Europe: Starting from Scratch, by Ivan Szekely

5. The Challenging Case of Nigeria, by Ayo Obe

Part 2: Themes



6. Making the Law Work: The Challenges of Implementation, by Laura Neuman and Richard Calland

7. Prizing Open the Profit-Making World, by Richard Calland

8. The Struggle for Openness in the International Financial Institutions, by Thomas Blanton

9. Transparency and Environmental Governance, by Vivek Ramkumar and Elena Petkova

10. Transparency in the Security Sector, by Alasdair Roberts

Conclusion: Whither Transparency?, by Ann Florini

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

• Economics & Finance
• Politics and Political Theory

Series

• Initiative for Policy Dialogue

About the Author

Ann Florini is the founding director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where her work explores new approaches to global governance.

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