Abstract
The concept of accountability reflects the growing importance that transparency has assumed in Italy and elsewhere. The evolutionary path of transparency in the Italian public sector from the post-war period to the present day emerges as in increasingly pervasive transparency, both in form and substance. The general, specific, and prospective guidelines are aimed at: strengthening the constitutional principles of impartiality and the good performance of public administrations; increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration activities, safeguarding public finances and preserving public management legitimacy; measuring and externally communicating the value created; producing and organising meaningful data in support of open government policies to increase the welfare of the economy.
Highlights
This paper deals with the evolution of the notion of transparency, with particular reference to the Italian public sector
The "public" element refers to the necessary higher-level protection of public interests compared to individual and particular interests, through qualified forms of interaction between citizens and authorities, through the instruments of "civic engagement and collaborative public management" (Cooper, Bryer & Meek, 2006), which presuppose the full awareness of citizens of information on critical matters, such as the organization of public administrations, the framework of the objectives that inspire management, the levels of effectiveness and efficiency in achieving the objectives set
The corpus of paradigmatic theories known as new public management (Hood, 1991, 1995) are inextricably bound to the reform processes that have concerned the public sector of western countries since the 1970s, with significant effects in Italy since the early '90s
Summary
This paper deals with the evolution of the notion of transparency, with particular reference to the Italian public sector. The corpus of paradigmatic theories known as new public management (Hood, 1991, 1995) are inextricably bound to the reform processes that have concerned the public sector of western countries since the 1970s, with significant effects in Italy since the early '90s From this decade, the information that public entities must disclose has broadened and widened, supplementing traditional accounting and budgeting information, public tenders, and administrative proceedings with a core of continually expanding information on matters whose knowledge is of "public interest". The last section offers some final considerations, describing some current and prospective development directives that redefine the notion of transparency
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