Control of politicians
— #14 Activities of politicians in the public electronic diary
A politician describes his/her daily business in the electronic diary. He specifies the amount of time spent on preparing his/her comments on draft laws, the amount of time spent replying citizens’ questions etc.
Recording of the daily activity through the electronic public diary would, on the one hand, help the politician to show to the public what he/she is doing and that his/her work is beneficial, and on the other hand, to protect the politician from corruption offers – if he/she consistently published his/her activity few political enterpreneurs would try to influence him/her. At the same time, it would be possible to find out with which stakeholders group the politician meets the most and whom he/she in reality represents.
Sources:
- OECD: The 10 Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying, 2013
- The Obama Administration’s Commitment to Open Government: A Status Report, 16 September 2011, p. 32
- Information about a further action in the area of lobbying regulation in the Czech Republic and principles for the proposal of an Act on lobbying, p. 6-7
- Fadrný, M., Kraus L., Principles of the reform in the area of lobbying regulation, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic – Environmental Law Service, p. 11
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 2: Monitoring of lobbied politicians through public electronic diary, December 2013
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