Abstract

PONCE, Matías. So close and so far: Transparency in Local Governments in Uruguay2013-2016. Rev. Urug. Cienc. Polít. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.75-102. ISSN 0797-9789.  https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26851/rucp.v26n2.4.

This article aims to describe the state of transparency of local governments in Uruguay in the period 2013-2016. Uruguay has made progress in the management of access to public information through the approval of an Access Law in 2008, a subsequent regulatory decree, and a pending government agency. However, compliance with the transparency law has not had the expected impact on local governments. From the levels of compliance with active transparency, the article advances in a neo-institutionalist reading regarding the poor performance that these governments have had in the period on access to public information.

Keywords : transparency; Open Government; local government.

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