Histoire & Mesure Volume 30 N° 2/2015
Before fiscal transparency
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- Nombre de pages256
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.456 kg
- Dimensions15,5 cm × 24,0 cm × 1,6 cm
- ISBN978-2-7132-2474-4
- EAN9782713224744
- Date de parution14/01/2016
- ÉditeurEHESS
Résumé
Today, transparency is hailed as a key to good governance and economic efficiency, with national States implementing new laws to allow citizens access to information. It is therefore paradoxical that, as shown by a series of crises and scandals, modern governments and international agencies frequently have paid only lip-service to such ideals. Since Jeremy Bentham first introduced the concept of transparency into the language in 1789, few societal debates have sparked so much interest within the academic community, and across a variety of disciplines, using different approaches and methodologies.
Within these current debates, however, one fact is striking : the lack of historical reflection about the development of the concept of transparency, both as a principla and as appliad in practice, prior to its inception. Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to contribute to historicising the ways in which communication and control oves fiscal policy and state finances operated in early modern European polities.
Within these current debates, however, one fact is striking : the lack of historical reflection about the development of the concept of transparency, both as a principla and as appliad in practice, prior to its inception. Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to contribute to historicising the ways in which communication and control oves fiscal policy and state finances operated in early modern European polities.
Today, transparency is hailed as a key to good governance and economic efficiency, with national States implementing new laws to allow citizens access to information. It is therefore paradoxical that, as shown by a series of crises and scandals, modern governments and international agencies frequently have paid only lip-service to such ideals. Since Jeremy Bentham first introduced the concept of transparency into the language in 1789, few societal debates have sparked so much interest within the academic community, and across a variety of disciplines, using different approaches and methodologies.
Within these current debates, however, one fact is striking : the lack of historical reflection about the development of the concept of transparency, both as a principla and as appliad in practice, prior to its inception. Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to contribute to historicising the ways in which communication and control oves fiscal policy and state finances operated in early modern European polities.
Within these current debates, however, one fact is striking : the lack of historical reflection about the development of the concept of transparency, both as a principla and as appliad in practice, prior to its inception. Accordingly, the aim of this special issue is to contribute to historicising the ways in which communication and control oves fiscal policy and state finances operated in early modern European polities.
