(In)Visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice

This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.

Maarten Hillebrandt is Assistant Professor of Public Management at the Department of Public Administration and Organisational Sciences, Utrecht University (Netherlands).

Päivi Leino-Sandberg is Professor of Transnational European Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of its Master’s Programme in Global Governance Law (Finland).

Ida Koivisto is Associate Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki (Finland).