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Freedom of information and the developing world : the citizen, the state and models of openness /

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Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, this book identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen's relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Darch, Colin
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Underwood, Peter G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : Chandos Publications, ©2010.
Series:Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:
Freedom of information > Developing countries.
Freedom of information > Africa.
Human rights > Developing countries.
Liberté d'information > Afrique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Freedom of information
Human rights
Africa
Developing countries
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Developing countries and freedom of information
  • The diffusion problem and the semantic shift
  • Compliance and the impulse to secrecy
  • Freedom of information as a human right
  • Struggles for freedom of information in countries in transition
  • Struggles for freedom of information in Africa
  • From adversarialism to FoI 2.0.