Information, Democracy, and Autocracy : Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability (Hardcover)

1. A new approach to the study of transparency; 2. The content of information; 3. The HRV index of transparency; 4. Comparing measures of transparency; 5. Transparency and (in)stability ? the theory; 6. The evidence ? examples and descriptive data; 7. The evidence ? regression analyses; 8. Transparency and investment; 9. Why democracies disseminate more data than autocracies; 10. Why autocrats disclose; 11. Consequences of transparency; References; Index.