Academic paper on government transparency released

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From OpenTheGovernment.org
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iSolon.org: New Academic Paper on Government Transparency

Jim Snider of iSolon.org has released an academic paper on government transparency through Harvard's Shorenstein Center. The paper is titled "Would You Ask Turkeys To Mandate Thanksgiving?". The first half of the paper, "The Dismal Politics of Legislative Transparency," examines the extent to which legislators make information about their voting record accessible; the second half, "Using Citizens Assemblies to Reform the Process of Democratic Reform," looks at case studies of from British Columbia and Ontario to evaluate the ability of citizen's assemblies to hold political officials accountable to the public.

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