financial supervision model in Spain. Lastly, he refers to the Bank’s control mechanisms and transparency standards, and certain … aspects of its governance. …

prime linkage between accountability and transparency in the building of private, public and global governance. …This paper argues that accountability in organizations should not be constrained to responsibilities alone, but it must … also comprise the previous commitments without which responsibilities remain meaningless. It also asserts that transparency …

hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the rule of law, corruption, and accountability. These norms correlate …. Regressions indicate that quantitative measures of national culture are alone remarkably predictive of governance, that economic …This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize …

government accountability. However, whether or not adopting such transparency laws improves bureaucratic efficiency remains … facilitates the right of access to governmental information. Thus, it is argued that FOI laws increase transparency and fix …