Democracy and Civil Society in Latin America and the Caribbean in a Time of Change
Open government has become a goal for countries all over the world, but it remains an elusive concept. Despite innovative methodologies to assess open government policies, action plans, and interventions in different countries, scholarly research and practical decisions are hindered by the lack of a...
- Autores:
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Appe, Susan
Barragán, Daniel
Cruz, Anabel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2018
- Institución:
- Universidad EAFIT
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EAFIT
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/15302
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10784/15302
- Palabra clave:
- Open Government
Transparency
Citizen Participation
Openness
Measurement
Gobierno Abierto
Transparencia
Participación Ciudadana
Apertura
Medición
- Rights
- License
- Copyright (c) 2018 Susan Appe, Daniel Barragán, and Anabel Cruz
| Summary: | Open government has become a goal for countries all over the world, but it remains an elusive concept. Despite innovative methodologies to assess open government policies, action plans, and interventions in different countries, scholarly research and practical decisions are hindered by the lack of a precise concept and an operationalization. In this paper, we make two contributions to this discussion. First, we argue that the discussions about open government would benefit from taking the grammatical structure of the concept seriously (open is an adjective, government a noun). Second, we propose that, in order to be conceptually and practically useful, open government should be observable. We present the methodology, application and results of an effort to observe and measure open government in Mexico, based on a study of 908 government offices in terms of transparency and participation. |
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