For far too long, getting access to important documents has meant having a very expensive subscription to an exclusive service. This has held true across disciplines, including politics, law, and academia. The Internet is starting to change this, lowering the cost of storing and transferring information to nearly nothing. With the help of pioneers like [...]
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Legal and Academic Open Access
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: OpenHouse · harvard · legalresearch · lessig · malamud · mit · publicresource · west
Transparency in Healthcare and Scientific Research
February 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
As the research of the Harvard Transparency Policy Project has made abundantly clear, applying the principles of openness and transparency to complex systems demands a careful approach to epistemic nuances; questions like what should be knowable to whom need to be answered before disclosure requirements are implemented, and need to be built into a disclosure [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · harvard · legal research · nih · nsf · preservation
Positive Feedback in the Political (Pierson’s Path Dependence)
January 6th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m reading Politics in Time by Paul Pierson (link), and am struck by how little academic political science seems to affect government policy and political discussion. I find political and social analysis incredibly stimulating, especially given how tiresome I find the current presidential punditizing.
I’m particularly interested in Pierson’s purportedly novel conception of how political [...]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · corruption · harvard
Transparency via GAO, Academia
December 5th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Paul Blumenthal just came across this document from the GAO, transcribing a pithy speech by the Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker (the head of the GAO). Transparent Government and Access to Information: A Role for Supreme Audit Institutions provides a neat tour of the advantages of transparent public administration, from [...]
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