Information disclosure changes agency behavior through good-faith career staff

Evidence

Even more subtle, but no less significant, the information disclosure requirement turned out to change agency behavior. Most career agency decisionmakers act in good faith. They may be initially reluctant to expend scarce agency resources to develop information, but once the information is before them, they are unlikely to simply ignore it. Most are instead apt to act based on that new information. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 395

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Procedural inclusion by itself increases acceptance of adverse environmental decisions — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 831; Secrecy of favoritism raises agency legitimacy while exposure undermines it; Information clarity neutralizes advantage of unscrupulous opportunists — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 591

Broader Connections

• Secrecy of favoritism raises agency legitimacy while exposure undermines it #contradicts (0.75)
• Information clarity neutralizes advantage of unscrupulous opportunists #corroborates (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 591