GOOD ADMINISTRATION: THE PRINCIPLE OF TRANSPARENCY AND ITS USE BY THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

The principle of transparency is one of the cornerstones in governance debate. It orients more creditable practices for the making of public policies and draws citizens’ attention to the combat of corruption. In addition, less opaque relations in public-private businesses may strengthen the confidence of investors and tend to deconstruct asymmetric relations in long-running scenarios. Nonetheless, it is important to bring to the fore in that debate the birth of a transversal rationality that has forged civil society in the international community beyond the national borders. More and more, civil actors on social media networks organise debates and opinions from local platforms to elaborate worldwide topics. The aim of the present article is to suggest transparency as a local response born inside States and conceived by the civil society to confront abuses of global economic powers. Comparative analyses on constitutions and domestic legislations related to transparency usually show how asymmetric can be the perception of private investments and public sectors; the former mostly seen as virtuous and the latter vicious.