accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal … accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve …

greater transparency in the Parliament´s debates compared to the Council´s decisions. On the other hand, a powerful European …

-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and …

and some related processes. Also, this article tries to identify the line between government transparency and people …'s privacy under the open government initiatives, by exploring transparency and privacy in more details. Finally, the authors …

coverage from 1990s to now. These principles include Accountability, Participation, Rule of law, Transparency, Effectiveness …This paper provides a review of environmental governance in both theoretical and empirical fields as a means of … from six perspectives that are considered as the critical principles in implement process of environmental governance, and …

Without transparency, trade agreements are just words on paper. Transparency as disclosure allows economic actors and … trading partners to see how rules are implanted; transparency in decision-making ensures fairness and peer review. In the … first section of this paper, I discuss the logic of transparency in general and the motivation for its use in the trading …

, transparency, and accountability among grass- roots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … where mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have … limited capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public …

regarding its focus range, to make it even more effective. In our view, the transparency/accountability issue represented by a … optimal degree of ECB transparency and accountability towards the EP, the key democratic institution. …