Transparency and Citizen's Collective Action: The Effect of Freedom of Information Laws on Protests

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Brief Overview

I argue that when FOI laws reveal the information about government wrongdoings and the government is not capable or not willing to correct wrongdoings and punish who conducted wrongdoings, citizens will protest.

Author

• Shengkuo Hu, University of California, Merced