TY - BOOK ID - 65297653 TI - Freedom of information and the developing world : the citizen, the state and models of openness AU - Darch, Colin. AU - Underwood, Peter G. PY - 2010 SN - 9781843341475 1843341476 1843341999 1780630204 9781780630205 9781843341994 PB - Oxford, [England] ; Cambridge, [England] : Chandos Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - #SBIB:35H24 KW - #SBIB:35H511 KW - Informatiemanagement bij de overheid KW - Kwaliteit van het openbaar bestuur KW - Freedom of information KW - Information, Freedom of KW - Liberty of information KW - Right to know KW - Civil rights KW - Freedom of speech KW - Intellectual freedom KW - Telecommunication KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65297653 AB - Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, Freedom of Information and the Developing World identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen's relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality of the pervasive politics of patronage that characterise much of African practice.Develops a discourse about the concept of FoIDiscussion of the human rights claim appropriates the concepts of Hohfeldian analysis for more radical purposes in s ER -