The politics of freedom of information : How and why governments pass laws that threaten their power / Ben Worthy.
2017
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The politics of freedom of information : How and why governments pass laws that threaten their power / Ben Worthy.
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Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]
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©2017
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1 online resource
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Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1 FOI: hard to resist and hard to escape
2 From radical to inevitable
3 New Labour, new openness?
4 The 1997 White Paper
5 The 1999 draft Bill
6 The Parliamentary passage
7 FOI in the UK
8 The US, Australia and India
9 Ireland and New Zealand
10 FOI and the remaking of politics
Conclusion
References
Index
Dedication
Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1 FOI: hard to resist and hard to escape
2 From radical to inevitable
3 New Labour, new openness?
4 The 1997 White Paper
5 The 1999 draft Bill
6 The Parliamentary passage
7 FOI in the UK
8 The US, Australia and India
9 Ireland and New Zealand
10 FOI and the remaking of politics
Conclusion
References
Index
Summary
Why do governments pass freedom of information laws? The symbolic power and force surrounding FOI makes it appealing as an electoral promise but hard to disengage from once in power. However, behind closed doors compromises and manoeuvres ensure that bold policies are seriously weakened before they reach the statute book.The politics of freedom of information examines how Tony Blair's government proposed a radical FOI law only to back down in fear of what it would do. But FOI survived, in part due to the government's reluctance to be seen to reject a law that spoke of 'freedom', 'information' and 'rights'. After comparing the British experience with the difficult development of FOI in Australia, India and the United States - and the rather different cases of Ireland and New Zealand - the book concludes by looking at how the disruptive, dynamic and democratic effects of FOI laws continue to cause controversy once in operation.
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In English.
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9781526108517
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