Review:
"A volume reviving the spirit of great sociologies past, this original, synthetic, and sympathetic sociology of global transformations invites us to cast aside old blinders and use the optic provided by transparency to recognize the trajectory, and potentials, of global governance and solidarities in the making. This sets a research agenda, and vision of scholarship in service to global publics, that should inspire."
--Michael D. Kennedy, University of Michigan
"Transparency in Global Change offers a rare educational experience of critical aspects of advanced modernity. Burkart and Leslie Holzner judiciously analyze our contemporary post-cold war, post 9/11 global situation as pitting the democratic ideal of the 'open society, ' based on trust and citizen engagement, against resistance to accountability and transparency from power structures favoring secrecy. The sweep of their work is not only enormous, covering the private and public sectors, but it is also balanced, since some degree of secrecy is a fact of social life, as Simmel long ago realized. All those interested in questions of governance in the global information age will benefit from reading this work. And hopefully they will be stimulated to become active agents for the 'open society.'"
--Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University
“ A volume reviving the spirit of great sociologies past, this original, synthetic, and sympathetic sociology of global transformations invites us to cast aside old blinders and use the optic provided by transparency to recognize the trajectory, and potentials, of global governance and solidarities in the making. This sets a research agenda, and vision of scholarship in service to global publics, that should inspire.”
— Michael D. Kennedy, University of Michigan
“ Transparency in Global Change offers an ambitious discussion of the value of transparency in societies undergoing processes of global change. Focusing on a broad range of nations across the world, and relying on a rich analysis of historical as well as contemporary developments, the authors deliver a powerful and provocative contribution to the study of globalization and the value of open societies. Exceedingly well written, this book will be useful to students and scholars interested in globalization, international studies, and public policy.”
— Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina
“ Transparency in Global Change offers a rare educational experience of critical aspects of advanced modernity. Burkart and Leslie Holzner judiciously analyze our contemporary post– cold war, post 9/11 global situation as pitting the democratic ideal of the ‘ open society, ’ based on trust and citizen engagement, against resistance to accountability and transparency from power structures favoring secrecy. The sweep of their work is not only enormous, covering the private and public sectors, but it is also balanced, since some degree of secrecy is a fact of social life, as Simmel long ago realized. All those interested in questions of governance in the global information age will benefit from reading this work. And hopefully they will be stimulated to become active agents for the ‘ open society.’ ”
— Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University
" Likely to become an important future reference on discussions of governance and globalization."
"--Contemporary Sociology"
" Transparency in Global Change offers an ambitious discussion of the value of transparency in societies undergoing processes of global change. Focusing on a broad range of nations across the world, and relying on a rich analysis of historical as well as contemporary developments, the authors deliver a powerful and provocative contribution to the study of globalization and the value of open societies. Exceedingly well written, this book will be useful to students and scholars interested in globalization, international studies, and public policy."
-- Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina
" "Transparency in Global Change" offers a rare educational experience of critical aspects of advanced modernity. Burkart and Leslie Holzner judiciously analyze our contemporary post-cold war, post 9/11 global situation as pitting the democratic ideal of the ' open society, ' based on trust and citizen engagement, against resistance to accountability and transparency from power structures favoring secrecy. The sweep of their work is not only enormous, covering the private and public sectors, but it is also balanced, since some degree of secrecy is a fact of social life, as Simmel long ago realized. All those interested in questions of governance in the global information age will benefit from reading this work. And hopefully they will be stimulated to become active agents for the ' open society.' "
-- Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University
"Transparency in Global Change offers an ambitious discussion of the value of transparency in societies undergoing processes of global change. Focusing on a broad range of nations across the world, and relying on a rich analysis of historical as well as contemporary developments, the authors deliver a powerful and provocative contribution to the study of globalization and the value of open societies. Exceedingly well written, this book will be useful to students and scholars interested in globalization, international studies, and public policy." --Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina
"Likely to become an important future reference on discussions of governance and globalization."
"--Contemporary Sociology"
About the Author:
Burkart Holzner is professor of sociology and public and international affairs, and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His earlier work dealt with the sociology of knowledge and includes Reality Construction in Society, and (with John Marx) Knowledge Application: The Knowledge System in Society. He directed the University Center for International Studies for twenty years and became increasingly interested in global change. Leslie Holzner, a sociologist, was assistant director at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. She has written about organizational change, educational reform, and especially restructuring of mathematics education.
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