Published: 2020-12-15

Transparency as an attribute of contemporary public administration and administrative law

Agnieszka Piskorz-Ryń
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2020.20.4.15

Abstract

This article presents transparency as an attribute of contemporary public administration and administrative law, describing the origins of transparency to show the broader context of current social, political and administrative developments, and giving an account of the period when the State exercised a monopoly on information and the characteristic features of that period. This is the background for the presentation of the changes which occurred in public affairs and led to a number of countries introducing legal regulations to guarantee access to information on the actions taken by their public authorities. These operations involved the activities of the journalists, legal professionals, administrators, politicians, and sociologists who worked to create an open society, using slogans and public declarations as effective tools to implement their aim. The next point discussed in the article is how administrative law and public administration itself has changed. Finally, the article presents how the early 21st-century transformations relate to the development of new technologies associated with the Internet Revolution and the rise of the next generation of network services on the of Web 2.0 principles.

Keywords:

transparency; right of access to public information, open government; information law.

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Piskorz-Ryń, A. (2020). Transparency as an attribute of contemporary public administration and administrative law. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 20(4), 295–318. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2020.20.4.15

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