Understanding modern transparency

TL;DR: The Open Society and its Enemies by K. R. Popper as mentioned in this paper is a book of great length (444 pages of text), great learning (168 pages of notes), but not of commensurate understanding.

TL;DR: Fung, Graham, and Weil as mentioned in this paper present a story of policy design that demonstrates the continuing value of careful legislative craftsmanship and policy refinement over time, based on feedback from administration and enforcement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effect of transparency on trust in government in the Netherlands and South Korea and found that transparency has a subdued and sometimes negative effect on public trust in the Dutch government, while the negative effect in South Korea is much stronger.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used theories from social psychology to advance their understanding of the effects and mechanism of the relation between transparency and the perceived trustworthiness of a government organization, and they proposed two alternative hypotheses, which state that the general predisposition to trust government and prior knowledge about the specific issue moderate the relation of transparency and trust.

TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.