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 …

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. We assign these individual … measures of governance to categories capturing key dimensions of governance, and use an unobserved components model to …

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 …