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Brokering Access: Power, Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada, by Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby

Brokering Access: Power, Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada, by Mike Larsen... Information Polity 19 (2014) 277­279 DOI 10.3233/IP-140324 IOS Press `Brokering Access: Power, Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada' edited by Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby Transparency is a hot topic, especially in recent years there has been an explosion of important publications and special issues in Information Polity, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Government Information Quarterly. Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts are seen as the legal backbone for a more transparent government [2]. A recent book edited by criminologists Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby sheds light on how scholars and investigative journalists try to use FOI type laws to gain access to government information in Canada. This is not a traditional, scientific, edited volume about transparency and FOI. The main added value of this book does not lie so much in developing scientific concepts or empirically testing theoretical propositions, but in gaining insights in FOI from a critical science and activist perspective. This is clearly stated in the preface by Ann Cavoukian, who has been Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner since 1997. She upholds a vigorous argument against the deplorable state of FOI in Canada. This argument perfectly catches the gist of the book: information http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

Brokering Access: Power, Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada, by Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby

Information Polity , Volume 19 (3) – Jan 1, 2014
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10.3233/IP-140324
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Information Polity 19 (2014) 277­279 DOI 10.3233/IP-140324 IOS Press `Brokering Access: Power, Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada' edited by Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby Transparency is a hot topic, especially in recent years there has been an explosion of important publications and special issues in Information Polity, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Government Information Quarterly. Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts are seen as the legal backbone for a more transparent government [2]. A recent book edited by criminologists Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby sheds light on how scholars and investigative journalists try to use FOI type laws to gain access to government information in Canada. This is not a traditional, scientific, edited volume about transparency and FOI. The main added value of this book does not lie so much in developing scientific concepts or empirically testing theoretical propositions, but in gaining insights in FOI from a critical science and activist perspective. This is clearly stated in the preface by Ann Cavoukian, who has been Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner since 1997. She upholds a vigorous argument against the deplorable state of FOI in Canada. This argument perfectly catches the gist of the book: information

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