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Transparency systems have emerged in recent years as a mainstream regulatory tool, an important development in social policy. Transparency systems are government mandates that require corporations or other organizations to provide the public with factual information about their products and practices. Such systems have a wide range of regulatory purposes which include protecting investors, improving public health and safety, reducing pollution, minimizing corruption and improving public services | |
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In a phrase coined by Lord Bryce, America 's separate states are seen as "laboratories of democracy," giving the United States fifty channels for generating fresh new approaches to public problems. The potential advantages are apparent. But how fully this potential is realized depends on how rapidly and reliably innovations developed in each "laboratory" diffuse to other states. | |
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As a pioneer in the use of performance metrics and performance goals in the management of public sector organizations, the UK can provide lessons for other governments as they seek to improve public sector performance while also recasting some of the terms of democratic deliberation. | |
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