The Power of Partnership in Open Government (Paperback)

Suzanne J. Piotrowski

ISBN 10: 0262544598 / ISBN 13: 9780262544597

Editore: MIT Press Ltd, 2022

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Paperback. What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform.What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform.At the 2011 meeting of the UN General Assembly, the governments of eight nations-Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States-launched the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative aimed at promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen governance. At the time, many were concerned that the Open Government Partnership would end up toothless, offering only lip service to vague ideals and misguided cyber-optimism. The Power of Partnership in Open Government offers a close look, and a surprising affirmation, of the Open Government Partnership as an example of a successful transnational multistakeholder initiative that has indeed impacted policy and helped to produce progressive reform.By 2019 the Open Government Partnership had grown to 78 member countries and 20 subnational governments. Through a variety of methods-document analysis, interviews, process tracing, and quantitative analysis of secondary data-Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner, and Alex Ingrams chart the Open Government Partnership's effectiveness and evaluate what this reveals about the potential of international reform initiatives in general. Their work calls upon scholars and policymakers to reconsider the role of international institutions and, in doing so, to differentiate between direct and indirect pathways to transnational impact on domestic policy. The more nuanced and complex processes of the indirect pathway, they suggest, have considerable but often overlooked potential to shape policy norms and models, alter resources and opportunities, and forge new linkages and coalitions-in short, to drive the substantial changes that inspire initiatives like the Open Government Partnership. "The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: The Power of Partnership in Open Government (Paperback)
• Editore: MIT Press Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262544598
• ISBN 13: 9780262544597
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform.

At the 2011 meeting of the UN General Assembly, the governments of eight nations—Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States—launched the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative aimed at promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen governance. At the time, many were concerned that the Open Government Partnership would end up toothless, offering only lip service to vague ideals and misguided cyber-optimism. The Power of Partnership in Open Government offers a close look, and a surprising affirmation, of the Open Government Partnership as an example of a successful transnational multistakeholder initiative that has indeed impacted policy and helped to produce progressive reform.

By 2019 the Open Government Partnership had grown to 78 member countries and 20 subnational governments. Through a variety of methods—document analysis, interviews, process tracing, and quantitative analysis of secondary data—Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner, and Alex Ingrams chart the Open Government Partnership’s effectiveness and evaluate what this reveals about the potential of international reform initiatives in general. Their work calls upon scholars and policymakers to reconsider the role of international institutions and, in doing so, to differentiate between direct and indirect pathways to transnational impact on domestic policy. The more nuanced and complex processes of the indirect pathway, they suggest, have considerable but often overlooked potential to shape policy norms and models, alter resources and opportunities, and forge new linkages and coalitions—in short, to drive the substantial changes that inspire initiatives like the Open Government Partnership.

Informazioni sull?autore

Suzanne J. Piotrowski is a Professor of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University–Newark and Director of the Transparency and Governance Center.

Daniel Berliner is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy in the Department of Government at the
London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Alex Ingrams is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands.