书目名称 | Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance | 副标题 | The Curse of Corrupt | 编辑 | Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai | 视频video | | 概述 | Brings together governance, history, political science, peace and conflict, and law under the same roof.Highlights FOI law to enhance good governance, anti-corruption and citizen participation in gove | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI..Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book’s major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone’s mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 关键词 | freedom of information law; anti corruption; armed civil conflict; good governance; civic engagement; cor | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83658-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-83660-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-83658-0 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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