This section looks at examples of how transparency operates currently, focusing particularly on transparency around government and public services. It is organised as follows:

• • Chapters 8 to 12 look at the most common current mechanisms for access to data and their record of success as a way of reducing corruption within government.

• • Chapter 13 looks at the way in which these methods of information sharing are undermined by the editorial control wielded by government and argues that the same is true wherever such methods are used.

• • Chapter 14 looks specifically at the tension between regulation and transparency and at the tendency to regard more transparent regulation rather than data sharing as a way to provide public assurance. We set out why regulatory capture and the monoptic view of regulators prevent this approach from providing effective transparency.