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Free Access to Public Information: Enforcement, Appeals and Judicial Review. A Comparative Perspective from Cee Countries

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Free Access to Public Information: Enforcement, Appeals and Judicial Review. A Comparative Perspective from Cee Countries
 
Creator COBÂRZAN, Bianca V.; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
DRAGOȘ, Dacian D.; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
NEAMȚU, Bogdana; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
 
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Description FOIAs were adopted in Central and EasternEurope rather late after the regime changes. Afteradopting the laws, however, there are still manypowerful forces that are working against extensiveaccess to information – they can be static - opaqueadministrative practices, general inaptitudeor the lack of sufficient human and materialresources – or active – agents that resist opennessdue to private interests, or agents that useinstitutional scenarios to prevent public scrutinyover corruption and incompetence. The paperapproaches the jurisdictions from Hungary, Poland,Czech Republic and Romania, emphasizing thetopic of enforcement mechanisms provided by theFOIAs. It is a follow up of an article published twoyears ago in the same journal.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2008-10-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/187
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2008: Issue No. 24 E/October; 53-63
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/187/183
 
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