1、7300 英文单词，英文单词，3.7 万英文字符万英文字符，中文中文 11500 字字 文献出处：文献出处：Hazell R, Worthy B. Assessing the performance of freedom of informationJ. Government Information Quarterly, 2010, 27(4): 352-359. Assessing the performance of freedom of information Robert Hazell, Ben Worthy Abstract How well has the UK FOI Act w
2、orked in practice now that it has been in force for 4 years? This article discusses how to measure the performance of FOI regimes. It presents the evidence on the performance of FOI in the UK measured against comparative data from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland, countries with access to
3、 information legislation and similar political systems. On a range of measures, the UK Act is found to have performed reasonably well, but it also suffers from problems common to all FOI regimes. The article concludes with some observations on what makes for a successful FOI regime, and how to measu
4、re it. Keywords: Freedom of Information；FOI；Performance 1. Introduction: the global reach of FOI In the past two decades freedom of information legislation has moved from being a legislative luxury enjoyed by a few advanced democracies to becoming an accepted part of the democratic landscape. Around
5、 ninety countries now have access to information regimes in place and another fi fty have legislation pending (Banisar, 2006; Mendel, 2008; Vleugels, 2009). From India to South Africa and Mexico to China, states of varying degrees of development, size, and political persuasion have embraced openness
6、 and FOI. There is increasing legal recognition from national courts and from interna- tional bodies such as the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that FOI is a human right (Mendel, 2008; Freedomofi nfo.org, 2009). Alongside the rapid spread of FOI, there has been growing interest in trying to measure its impact and effectiveness. Many FOI laws are paper laws, passed in response to domestic or international pressures for transparency and good gove
