Epilogue : against transparency complacency : for engaged publics
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Maarten HILLEBRANDT, Päivi LEINO-SANDBERG and Ida KOIVISTO (eds), (In)visible European government critical approaches to transparency as an ideal and a practice, London : Routledge, 2024, Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies, pp. 327-334
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CURTIN, Deirdre, Epilogue : against transparency complacency : for engaged publics, in Maarten HILLEBRANDT, Päivi LEINO-SANDBERG and Ida KOIVISTO (eds), (In)visible European government critical approaches to transparency as an ideal and a practice, London : Routledge, 2024, Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies, pp. 327-334 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92819
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The Public Access regulation adopted more than 20 years ago now is still in place unamended even though it was designed for a totally different era, has no digital component or footprint and is arguably institutionally far too dependent on complainants. Such scholarly engagement is the opposite of enchantment and involves “informed observers with a normative perspective” fuelled by a critical research agenda around transparency as a concept and as a practice. Journalists, members of parliament, NGOs, academics all actively engage with the executive institutions under newly acquired informal and later formal obligations – with mandatory and discretionary exceptions – watching, requesting, receiving (at times leaked) information, challenging refusals, and bringing complaints to the European Ombudsman and/or the European courts in some cases.
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Published online: 22 December 2023