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Title: What Do Citizens Understand by Transparency? The Punitive Component of Transparency
Author: Medir Tejado, Lluís
Magre Ferran, Jaume
Pano, Esther
Keywords: Opinió pública
Transparència política
Ciències polítiques
Public opinion
Transparency in government
Political science
Issue Date: 1-Jul-2025
Publisher: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas - Siglo XXI
Abstract: This work sheds light on the determinants of citizens’ conception of transparency. Based on theoretical analysis and empirical evidence from focus groups and citizen surveys, the results confirm that citizens with lower levels of institutional trust view transparency as a policy for controlling governments. The causal hypothesis of transparency policies assumes that their fundamental goal is to increase citizen trust in the functioning of political institutions. However, if willingness to control and low prior trust are found to be determinants of citizens’ understanding of transparency, the explanations for the origins of transparency policies may vary, opening up new, less optimistic avenues for interpreting the actual effects of transparency on citizens.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: doi:10.5477/cis/reis.191.63-80
It is part of: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociologicas, 2025, num.191, p. 61-78
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/221713
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.191.61-78
ISSN: 0210-5233
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret)

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