Year: 2012
Series editor: Valts Kalnins
Financed by: Soross Foundation-Latvia
Language: English, Latvian
In Latvia there are quite a few various standards and tools of transparency that have been produced by bigger or smaller crisis. However, a critical discussion on the purposefulness of these mechanisms, their suitability for solving problems, usefulness and effect is missing. Likewise, the cognition that the transparency is not just the analogue of the slogan “faster, higher, stronger” in the political rhetoric, and only with the involvement of those who demand transparency the result could yield real systemic and policy solutions compliant with the public interest is also missing.
In the article there are references to the authors of past whose citations are often explored by the defenders of the transparency forgetting their ideas as regards the necessary preconditions for the transparency to attain the desired results. Modern popular interpretations of the importance and the application of transparency are described. Within the context of these views and interpretations the approach to the transparency that has been dominating in the current policy of Latvia is evaluated.
