Transparency and Freedom of Information in Administrative Work - A Comparative Study
Keywords:
Administration, Information, Transparency, Law, FreedomAbstract
Combating administrative corruption is achieved by subjecting the activities and work of the administration to transparency, as this principle constitutes a fertile environment for administrative and political reform, which is positively reflected in all developmental and humanitarian fields.
The administration's reliance on the principle of transparency in its work contributes to raising the rates of development and progress in various fields, and it also has a major role in achieving administrative reform and preventing administrative corruption, and that adopting it requires the state to adopt effective legal rules to access information and participate in the management of public affairs, and it is a right of citizens towards the state, and a duty of the administration towards them.
The research problem arises in defining the meaning of transparency in the work of the administration and its most important applications, and accordingly we will divide this study into two requirements that examine the meaning of transparency and its basis, and its most important applications in the work of the administration and the exceptions to it, by adopting the analytical and comparative scientific research method.
References
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1. Dr. Osama Abu Al-Hassan Mujahid: Civil Protection of the Presumption of Innocence, Dar Al-Nahda Al-Arabiya, Egypt, 2006.
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1. Dr. Saleh Abdul Ayed Al-Ajili and Dr. Nazer Ahmed Al-Mandil: The Role of Administrative Transparency in Reducing Administrative Corruption, a study published in the Journal of Legal Sciences, College of Law, University of Baghdad, Special Issue on Public Law Conference Research, 2018.
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3- Evidence Law No. 107 of 1979.
3- Income Tax Law No. 113 of 1982, as amended.
4- State and Public Sector Employees Discipline Law No. 14 of 1991, as amended.
