Transparency is a fundamental component of democratic government.
It concerns the right of citizens to know about the activities of
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their government. Transparency policies have expanded to protect
against institutional corruption, a notion that underlies Louis Brandeiss famous
quote: Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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Recently, transparency policy has evolved into what my colleagues
Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and I call in our research targeted transparency.
Targeted transpa