FOI Scholarship Reflects a Return to Secrecy

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aut.relation.endpage136
aut.relation.issue1en_NZ
aut.relation.journalPacific Journalism Reviewen_NZ
aut.relation.pages15
aut.relation.startpage121
aut.relation.volume22en_NZ
aut.researcherMacLeod, Doug
dc.contributor.authorTreadwell, Gen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T03:14:04Z
dc.date.available2019-09-06T03:14:04Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_NZ
dc.date.issued2016en_NZ
dc.description.abstractWhen Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto launched the third summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in October 2015, protesters disputed his highly scripted account of his government’s transparency. The OGP may be growing but increasingly scholars and journalists are reporting a degradation of freedom of information (FOI), even in comparatively open societies like Aotearoa/New Zealand. Stemming from a doctoral review of FOI scholarship, this article traces FOI’s origins and role in democratic governance and finds scholars situate access to state-held information as a fundamental human right. However, it describes scepticism among journalism practitioners and researchers alike about the realpolitik success of FOI regimes. Researchers have recorded tendencies back to state secrecy since the declaration of the so-called war on terror and document various other FOI failures, from blatant disregard for the law to an ever-growing structural pluralism that is casting shadows over state expenditure. This article also considers literature on New Zealand FOI regime, work largely produced by legal-studies and policy-studies scholars. It outlines what research does exist within journalism studies but contends a lack of more significant contributions has restricted our understanding of the regime.
dc.identifier.citationPacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 22(1), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v22i1.16
dc.identifier.doi10.24135/pjr.v22i1.16
dc.identifier.issn1023-9499en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12797
dc.publisherPacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology.
dc.relation.urihttps://pjreview.aut.ac.nz/articles/foi-scholarship-reflects-return-secrecy-1517en_NZ
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectFreedom of information; New Zealand; Official Information Act; Open Government Partnership; State secrecy; Transparency
dc.titleFOI Scholarship Reflects a Return to Secrecyen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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