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Freedom of information and the developing world : the citizen, the state and models of openness / Colin Darch and Peter G. Underwood.

Title
Freedom of information and the developing world : the citizen, the state and models of openness / Colin Darch and Peter G. Underwood.
Author
Darch, Colin
Publication
Oxford, UK : Chandos Pub, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Underwood, Peter G.
Description
xviii, 317 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Rather than simply summarizing the state of play in African countries, this title identifies the assumptions about the citizen's relationship to the state that lie beneath freedom of information discourse.
Series Statement
Chandos information professional series
Uniform Title
Chandos information professional series
Subject
  • Freedom of information > Developing countries
  • Freedom of information > Africa
  • Human rights > Developing countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-305) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Developing countries and freedom of information -- The diffusion problem and the semantic shift -- Compliance and the impulse -- Freedom of information as a human right -- Struggles for freedom of information in countries in transition -- Struggles for freedom of information in Africa -- From adversarialism to Fol 2.0.
ISBN
  • 9781843341475 (pbk.)
  • 1843341476 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 462916743
  • SCSB-11825578
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library