Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency
(Book)

Governance by transparency. The new power of information ; Transparency informs choice ; Transparency as missed opportunity ; A real time experiment ; Transparency success and failure ; How the book is organized -- An unlikely policy innovation. An unplanned invention ; The struggle toward openness ; Why disclosure? -- Designing transparency policies. Improving on-the-job safety: one goal, many methods ; Disclosure to create incentives for change ; What targeted transparency policies have in common ; Standards, market incentives, or targeted transparency? -- What makes transparency work? A complex chain reaction ; New information embedded in user decisions ; New information embedded in discloser decisions ; Obstacles: Preferences, biases, and games ; Crafting effective transparency policies -- What makes transparency sustainable? Crisis drives financial disclosure improvements ; Sustainable policies ; The politics of disclosure ; Humble beginnings: prospects for sustainable transparency ; Two illustrations ; Shifting conditions drive changes in sustainability --

International transparency. How do international transparency policies work? ; Why now? ; From private committee to public mandate: international corporate financial reporting ; Improving a moribund system: international disease reporting ; The limits of international transparency: labeling of genetically modified foods

Toward collaborative transparency. Innovation at the edge ; Technology expands capacities of users, disclosers, and government ; Four emerging policies ; Challenges to collaborative transparency ; New roles for users, disclosers, and government ; Looking ahead: complementary generations of transparency

The future of disclosure. Two possible futures ; When transparency won't work ; Crafting effective policies ; The road ahead

Appendix: Eighteen major cases. Targeted transparency in the United States ; Targeted transparency in the international context.