The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests

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dc.contributor.authorVan der Mey, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorEyal, Katherine
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T09:09:27Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T09:09:27Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to assess the effectiveness and transparency outcomes of an access to information mechanism in South Africa enshrined in the Protection of Access to in Information (PAIA) Act of 2000. A randomized control trial is conducted to assess whether emotional influences known as ‘affect’ in PAIA requests can improve the transparency outcomes of the request process. The hypothesis that aggressive requests can achieve more transparent outcomes is supported by the data, with response times to requests being 3.6 days shorter on average in the treatment group relative to the control group. However, aggression in requests has a weak effect in terms improving other transparency outcomes. The robustness of the outcomes is limited by low response rates overall leading to limited measurable statistical significance. The social implication suggested by the results is that the PAIA request mechanism is often ineffective in achieving increased transparency, and is subject to manipulation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationVan der Mey, S., & Eyal, K. (2014). <i>The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9958en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVan der Mey, Stephanie, and Katherine Eyal <i>The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9958en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan der Mey, S., Eyal, K. 2014. The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Van der Mey, Stephanie AU - Eyal, Katherine AB - This paper aims to assess the effectiveness and transparency outcomes of an access to information mechanism in South Africa enshrined in the Protection of Access to in Information (PAIA) Act of 2000. A randomized control trial is conducted to assess whether emotional influences known as ‘affect’ in PAIA requests can improve the transparency outcomes of the request process. The hypothesis that aggressive requests can achieve more transparent outcomes is supported by the data, with response times to requests being 3.6 days shorter on average in the treatment group relative to the control group. However, aggression in requests has a weak effect in terms improving other transparency outcomes. The robustness of the outcomes is limited by low response rates overall leading to limited measurable statistical significance. The social implication suggested by the results is that the PAIA request mechanism is often ineffective in achieving increased transparency, and is subject to manipulation. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - open data KW - Promotion of Access to Information Act KW - PAIA request process KW - behavioural economics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests TI - The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9958 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/9958
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVan der Mey S, Eyal K. The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests. 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9958en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)*
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dc.subjectopen dataen_ZA
dc.subjectPromotion of Access to Information Acten_ZA
dc.subjectPAIA request processen_ZA
dc.subjectbehavioural economicsen_ZA
dc.titleThe impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requestsen_ZA
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