scholarly journals Opening Government: Transparency and Engagement in the Information Age

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Government Transparency

The influence of government transparency on governance efficiency in information age: the environmental governance behavior of Guangdong, China

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujian Zhang ◽  
Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fiscal Transparency ◽  
Government Transparency ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeWe are in an information age, and the relationship between government governance and market efficiency has become closer. When examining the behavior of governance, the study of government transparency is very important. This paper examines the environmental governance performance of Guangdong province, the most developed coastal region in China.Design/methodology/approachDEA method is adopted to calculate the environmental governance efficiency by considering the expected output and the nonexpected output. Then Tobit regression was used to analyze the relationship between fiscal transparency and environmental governance efficiency.FindingsThrough a quantitative study of empirical data of Guangdong province from 2001 to 2017, it is found that fiscal transparency does have a significant positive impact on the efficiency of local environmental governance. Therefore, it is suggested that all regions in Guangdong should be more transparent in administration, intensify industrial transformation and upgrading, and better govern the regional ecological environment.Originality/valueThis paper examines the environmental governance performance of Guangdong province, the most developed coastal region in China. Guangdong has developed economy and people’s living standards are high, so the market and residents are particularly concerned about the government performance in environmental governance. Therefore, it is an important issue to explore the relationship between environmental governance and government transparency in Guangdong.

Countering Psychological Misinformation in the Information Age

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E. Gredler ◽  
Melissa D. Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Information Age
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