Accountability and transparency of central governments in South America

This dissertation studies the disclosure of information on governance, corruption, and socio-economic development in the period 1996-2016 as best transparency practices of South American central governments, answering research questions about whether there are differences in the indicators that meas...

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Autor: Hermosa del Vasto, Paola Marcela
Tipo de documento: tese
Data de publicação:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/11328
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/11328
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:351.9(043.2)
Transparency in government
Transparencia en el gobierno
Administración pública
5909 Administración Publica
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Resumo:This dissertation studies the disclosure of information on governance, corruption, and socio-economic development in the period 1996-2016 as best transparency practices of South American central governments, answering research questions about whether there are differences in the indicators that measure governance,corruption, and socio-economic development, and how central government reports can be evaluated through a novel measurement. This subject is of great interest at present, although the financial and on-line reports have not been studied in depth in the governmental context. Therefore, this dissertation aims to contribute to increase the knowledge about the reporting, accountability and governance in such a way as to ensure the comparison is allowed to support a benchmarking process, which can serve as a basis and as an example for other countries since the literature seems to emphasize a framework of interrelationships between governance, transparency and socio-economic development indicators...