Government and politic party transparency: approach and agreement in the Spanish case

Abstract

The study’s object of this work is the analysis of transparency in Spanish politic parties. The principal objectives of this research are: delimit politic organism who have to be transparent, define suitable formats, identify inspectors and forms of control and describe the responsibility of mass media and citizens. We start from the hypothesis that the Spanish transparency law is not enough for the actual needs, although is a good base. Also the mass media role is essential and they have to be responsible through its own inspection. We had used the Delphi technique to found out this, in which we interview some experts who have worked in transparency from different academic areas. Three rounds were done, the first with totally open questions and the rest with closed quantitative answers. The results show what is transparency, its functions and formats and an indicator list of the information that has to be published, as well as a public and private organism list who could be included in the Spanish transparency law and their not centralised control forms, avoiding partisanships. By last, stands the pedagogy needed for mass media and citizens and the transmission role of the first with the citizens’ support. One of the most important conclusion is the need of use adequate formats and it is needed to approach the concept of transparency to accountability, including the enforcement.