8. Monitoring the U.S. Executive Branch Inside and Out: The Freedom of Information Act, Inspectors General, and the Paradoxes of Transparency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Troubling Transparency 1
5. PART I. FOIA’S HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
6. 1. How Administrative Opposition Shaped the Freedom of Information Act 13
7. 2. Positive Rights, Negative Rights, and the Right to Know 34
8. 3. FOIA as an Administrative Law 52
9. PART II. FOIA AND THE NEWS MEDIA
10. 4. The Other FOIA Requesters 73
11. 5. State FOI Laws: More Journalist-Friendly, or Less? 91
12. 6. FOIA and Investigative Reporting: Who’s Asking What, Where, and When—and Why It Matters 116
13. PART III. THEORIZING TRANSPARENCY TACTICS
14. 7. The Ecology of Transparency Reloaded 135
15. 8. Monitoring the U.S. Executive Branch Inside and Out: The Freedom of Information Act, Inspectors General, and the Paradoxes of Transparency 166
16. 9. Output Transparency vs. Input Transparency 187
17. 10. Open Data: The Future of Transparency in the Age of Big Data 206
18. 11. Striking the Right Balance: Weighing the Public Interest in Access to Agency Records Under the Freedom of Information Act 226
19. PART IV. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
20. 12. The Global Influence of the United States on Freedom of Information 249
21. 13. Transparency as Leverage or Transparency as Monitoring? U.S. and Nordic Paradigms in Latin America 269
22. 14. Structural Corruption and the Democratic-Expansive Model of Transparency in Mexico 291
23. List of Contributors 311
24. Index 315