José Javier, Olivas and Scrollini, Fabrizio (2013) The bumpy road to transparency in Spain. Euro Crisis in the Press (12 Jun 2013). Website.
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Abstract
The current Euro Crisis has unveiled many political and institutional deficiencies in Spain. Among them, the lack of transparency and free access to public information is one of the most serious. In modern democracies public scrutiny is a fundamental element for good governance. Transparency empowers the citizenship and civil-society to keep the government in check. Many of the problems that have contributed to the built-up of the crisis in Spain (and other European countries), such as opacity in public procurement, absence of reliable policy evaluations, mismanagement of public expenditure and corruption, have been enabled and aggravated by the lack of transparency. Numerous voices within the Spanish polity, media and civil society are now criticising the passivity of the Spanish governments to redress this situation. They are claiming the pressing need for a new much more ambitious legal framework of access to public information. The Euro Crisis is certainly creating a window of opportunity for reforms such as this one and Rajoy’s government seems to be increasingly willing to implement it. Despite the many obstacles and mixed signals from the government there is still hope. The new law for transparency could become the first step into a real process of institutional regeneration in Spain.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > J General legislative and executive papers J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2017 09:29 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 18:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/78332 |
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