Description:
This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.
Review Quotes:
"...The volume greatly enriches academic debate by contributing to a more nuanced understanding of transparency. It lays groundwork and provides a valuable resource for future critical engagement with transparency in the EU."
Luca Knuth, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and Kiel University, Germany. Review in Review of European Administrative Law (REALaw), 2025, 1 (april)/ 1
"...This volume makes an important contribution to ongoing debates on government transparency in our democracies, taking into account the new challenges brought about by an age of expanding technologies and growing suspicion towards representative politics... The focus on European governance in the title of the volume should not discourage lawyers and scientists from other fields from picking it up..."
Rita Guerreiro Teixeira, University of Helsinki, Finland. Review in International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 2024;73(3):811-813. doi:10.1017/S002058932400023X
"...Given the complexity of the book's topic, the editors made a good decision to invite authors covering a variety of disciplinary fields, allowing a multifaceted approach to get insight into transparency as an ideal and a practice in (in)visible European government... This [book] offer us insight into the characteristics of 'transparency' related to European government... I recommend this book not only to scholars but also to the broader public who are aware of the necessity to look beyond the obvious..."
Eugène Loos, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Book Review. Information Polity, 30(2), 158-159. https: //doi.org/10.1177/15701255251333589 (2025)
"...[A]n important contribution to the ongoing debate on transparency and Governance in Europe. This publication provides a rich and multidimensional picture of transparency in Europe ... and address[es] this fundamental rule of law principle from different angles and perspectives, while taking into account new challenges caused by the introduction of technologies... The book is refreshing as it forces to rethink the purpose and content of transparency invited by terms such as the 'transparency trap', 'political myth of transparency' or even 'tyranny of transparency'..."
Evelien Brouwer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 'Book Review' in European Public Law 31, no. 4 (2025): 587-588.