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Opaque Markets and Firearm Regulation

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Transparency in Public Policy

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The ‘policy production process’ can be characterized as a system that employs various pieces of information as inputs, and in some way processes the available information into public policies; the policies then have effects, which in turn can inform further policy changes, and so on. Transparency, or openness in the policy process, is generally thought to be desirable for promoting good policies and for limiting corruption.’ Effective democratic governance, in particular, would seem to require a high degree of transparency, prying open the black box that translates information into final policies.

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Leitzel, J. (2000). Opaque Markets and Firearm Regulation. In: Finkelstein, N.D. (eds) Transparency in Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977583_6

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