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We are in a wave of transparency. Transparency used to be a slogan of civil society organizations, something they pressed for when confronting unresponsive governments or secretive corporations. Transparency was about compelling organizations of the state and market to reveal their secrets. It was an exercise of discovery, knowledge gathering and dissemination. Transparency was the wooden club wielded by civil society.
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Sampson, S. (2010). Diagnostics: Indicators and Transparency in the Anti-Corruption Industry. In: Jansen, S., Schröter, E., Stehr, N. (eds) Transparenz. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92466-3_7
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