https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Rise-of-Transparency https://booksandideas.net/The-Rise-of-Transparency 2017-01-26T08:00:00Z text/html en Erik Neveu Politics media United States of America democracy transparency Institut français <p>An in-depth study of the recent history of the right to know in the United States traces the origins of the rise of transparency back to practical, anti-bureaucratic demands rather than to any ideological claims made by the generation of 1968.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Other-Election https://booksandideas.net/The-Other-Election 2017-01-16T08:00:00Z text/html en Marieke Louis International democracy transparency press Institut français <p>The name of the new <span class="caps">UN</span> Secretary-General, António Guterres, was revealed in October 2016. Although the transparency of this election has been celebrated, no democratic debate has really taken place concerning the programs of the different candidates, which have received very little press coverage.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Opacity-of-Consensus https://booksandideas.net/The-Opacity-of-Consensus 2011-11-24T08:43:21Z text/html en Stéphanie Novak Politics democracy European Union lobbying decision-making transparency vote Chadoc <p>At the Council of the European Union, decisions are usually made by consensus. Does this mean that all the countries are of one mind? In fact, disagreements are often concealed, since it is not in the interest of most countries to publicize the fact that they have been defeated. Stéphanie Novak describes the various practices that consensus entails and gives an account of the opacity presiding over the exercise of joint sovereignty.</p>