Transparency of transparency: The pro-active disclosure of the rules governing access to information as a gauge of organisational cultural transformation: The case of the Swiss transparency regime

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 556-562

  Villeneuve, Jean Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Access to information; Public administration; Switzerland; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922404568     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.10.010     Document Type: Review

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