Transparency

Hailed as the key to better governance and reducing corruption, the concept of transparency is a multifaceted idea that contains many, often inconsistent, definitions, dimensions and “directions”. As a fundamental concept in the era of the so-called transparent society, whose success has been sustained and accompanied by the process of globalization and democratization, transparency is linked to the most politically charged debates of the twenty-first century. Notwithstanding its benefits in terms of good governance and economic competitiveness, the future of transparency is not as bright and secure as some scholars thought only few years ago