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The demand for transparency has become, in contemporary political and institutional life, something very close to an article of faith - a principle so widely endorsed and so seldom interrogated that to question it is to risk being suspected of harbouring precisely the kind of secrets that transparency is designed to…

• What assumption underlies the contemporary demand for institutional transparency?
• What crucial distinction does Onora O'Neill draw in her critique of transparency?