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Transparency (Ethics) in government

Here are entered works on the openness of government operations to public scrutiny.

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• Public administration

• Transparency (Ethics) in government -- United States

• Government in the sunshine
• Open government (Transparency in government)
• Openness in government
• Sunshine, Government in the
• Transparence in government
• Transparency in government
• Open government

• Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation (San Francisco: Code for America Press, c2013), ed. by Brett Goldstein and Lauren Dyson (HTML and PDF with commentary at beyondtransparency.org)
• Open Government Data (revised June 2012), by Joshua Tauberer (illustrated HTML with commentary at opengovdata.io)

• Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2010), ed. by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma (multiple formats at github.com)
• Immigration Enforcement: Arrests, Removals, and Detentions Varied Over Time and ICE Should Strengthen Data Reporting (2024), by United States Government Accountability Office (PDF with commentary at gao.gov)
• The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Aaron J. Rosenthal (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Management in the Public Service: The Quest for Effective Performance (New York et al.L McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by John D. Millett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standards and Techniques of Public Administration, With Special Reference to Technical Assistance for Under-Developed Countries (1951), by United Nations Technical Assistance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of War on Federal Personnel Administration, 1939-1945 (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1951), by Gladys M. Kammerer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Policy and Administration (University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1949), by Paul H. Appleby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Implications of Electronic Mail and Message Systems for the U.S. Postal Service (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Development Administration: An Annotated Bibliography (Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1963), by Allan A. Spitz and Edward W. Weidner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), by Richard W. Waterman, Amelia A. Rouse, and Robert Wright, contrib. by Kenneth J. Meier (page images at Pitt)

• Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, and Göran Cars (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts (published in English by the UN OHCHR, redacted, as an appendix to its Assessment of the Human Rights Situtation; 2022), by Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government (2002), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services (OTA-TCT-578; Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Princeton
• Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Electronic Record Systems and Individual Privacy (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services (OTA-TCT-578; Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at Princeton

• Framing the Global Economic Downturn: Crisis Rhetoric and the Politics of Recessions (2009), ed. by Paul 't Hart and Karen Tindall (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Judgment Misguided: Intuition and Error in Public Decision Making, by Jonathan Baron (HTML here at Penn)
• Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by Vicki J. Rast (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat (Hamlyn Lectures, #6; London: Stevens and Sons, 1954), by C. J. Hamson (PDF in the UK)

• Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat (Hamlyn Lectures, #6; London: Stevens and Sons, 1954), by C. J. Hamson (PDF in the UK)

• Protection of the Public: A New Challenge (Hamlyn Lectures, #41; London: Stevens and Sons, 1990), by Harry Woolf (PDF in the UK)

• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1975), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)
• Justice in the Welfare State (Hamlyn Lectures, #20; London: Stevens and Sons, 1968), by Harry Street (PDF in the UK)

• Efficiency and Empire (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by Arnold White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The "Pope" of Holland House (based on the 1906 T. F. Unwin edition, with annotated names; 2011), by J. Whishaw, ed. by Elizabeth Mary Romilly Seymour and David Hill Radcliffe, contrib. by William Prideaux Courtney (HTML at vt.edu)

• National Intelligence Machinery (second edition, 2001), by Great Britain Joint Intelligence Committee (PDF in the UK)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly (2006), by Guyana Parliament (PDF in Guyana)

• Administration (partial serial archives)
• Ciencias Administrativas (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)
• Administration and Management Review (issues online 2007-2012) (partial serial archives)

• Governance Through Social Learning (c1999), by Gilles Paquet (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Financial Strategy for Public Managers (online edition, last updated 2020), by Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe (multiple formats with commentary at rebus.community)

• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

• Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Judith E. Gruber (frame-dependent HTML at UC Press)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1991), ed. by André Blais and Stéphane Dion (page images at Pitt)
• Class, Crisis, and the State (1978), by Erik Olin Wright (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1991), ed. by André Blais and Stéphane Dion (page images at Pitt)

• How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering Al Qa'ida (2008), by Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.