CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Troubling Transparency

David E. Pozen and Michael Schudson

PART I  FOIA’S HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS

  1.  How Administrative Opposition Shaped the Freedom of Information Act

Sam Lebovic

  2.  Positive Rights, Negative Rights, and the Right to Know

Frederick Schauer

  3.  FOIA as an Administrative Law

Mark Fenster

PART II  FOIA AND THE NEWS MEDIA

  4.  The Other FOIA Requesters

Margaret B. Kwoka

  5.  State FOI Laws: More Journalist-Friendly, or Less?

Katherine Fink

  6.  FOIA and Investigative Reporting: Who’s Asking What, Where, and When—and Why It Matters

James T. Hamilton

PART III  THEORIZING TRANSPARENCY TACTICS

  7.  The Ecology of Transparency Reloaded

Seth F. Kreimer

  8.  Monitoring the U.S. Executive Branch Inside and Out: The Freedom of Information Act, Inspectors General, and the Paradoxes of Transparency

Nadia Hilliard

  9.  Output Transparency vs. Input Transparency

Cass R. Sunstein

10.  Open Data: The Future of Transparency in the Age of Big Data

Beth Simone Noveck

11.  Striking the Right Balance: Weighing the Public Interest in Access to Agency Records Under the Freedom of Information Act

Katie Townsend and Adam A. Marshall

PART IV  COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

12.  The Global Influence of the United States on Freedom of Information

Kyu Ho Youm and Toby Mendel

13.  Transparency as Leverage or Transparency as Monitoring? U.S. and Nordic Paradigms in Latin America

Gregory Michener

14.  Structural Corruption and the Democratic-Expansive Model of Transparency in Mexico

Irma Eréndira Sandoval-Ballesteros

List of Contributors

Index