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A Global Index of Information and Political Transparency

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  • Andrew Williams

    (University of Western Australia)

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Interest in the political and economic consequences of transparency has grown significantly over the past decade. The literature, however, has been hampered by methodological issues over what actually constitutes ‘transparency’, as well as the lack of a quantitative indicator that has substantial coverage across countries, and time. This paper uses a methodology similar to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index to construct composite indicators of what we call Informational Transparency, and Political Transparency. These new indicators have been taken from 24 individual sources, with scores being derived annually between 1980 – 2010 across more than 180 countries. A brief example looking at the effects of transparency on economic growth shows that countries that have improved their informational transparency grew strongly over this period, however, there appears to be no growth benefits from improved political transparency

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  • Andrew Williams, 2014. "A Global Index of Information and Political Transparency," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 14-07, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwa:wpaper:14-07
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    1. Forssbaeck, Jens & Oxel, Lars, 2014. "The Multi-Faceted Concept of Transparency," Working Paper Series 1013, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
    2. Axel Dreher & Kai Gehring & Christos Kotsogiannis & Silvia Marchesi, 2018. "Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures: theory and evidence," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 70(1), pages 243-265.
    3. Alaimo, Leonardo Salvatore & Galli, Emma & Rizzo, Ilde & Scaglioni, Carla, 2023. "A new index of transparency: Evidence for the Italian municipalities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    4. Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati & Arusha Cooray & Samuel Brazys, 2018. "Nothing to hide: Commitment to, compliance with, and impact of the special data dissemination standard," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(1), pages 55-77, March.
    5. Belz, Thomas & von Hagen, Dominik & Steffens, Christian, 2019. "Taxes and firm size: Political cost or political power?," Journal of Accounting Literature, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 1-28.
    6. Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati & Arusha Cooray, 2015. "Do transparency initiatives work? Assessing the impact of the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) on data transparency," CAMA Working Papers 2015-24, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    7. Violeta Maria CIMPOERU, 2015. "BUDGET TRANSPARENCY - SUPPORTING FACTOR IN THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS AND CONTROL OF CORRUPTION Abstract : In the last two decades, international institutions, donors, acad," EcoForum, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Public Administration - Economy, Business Administration and Tourism Department., vol. 4(Special I), pages 1-37, august.

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