Professor Richard J. Peltz-Steele has published a research article on accountability in international development in an Indian social science journal. The article appears in the peer-reviewed Research Journal Social Sciences, a publication of Panjab University in Chandigarh, India.
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UMass Law Professor Richard J. Peltz-Steele has published a research article on accountability in international development in an Indian social science journal. The article is available for download from SSRN, and the introduction appears on Peltz-Steele’s blog, The Savory Tort.
In the article, Accountability in the Private Sector: African Ambition for Right to Information in India, Professor Peltz-Steele examines Indian transparency law, called “right to information” or “RTI” law, akin to “freedom of information” or “FOI” law in the United States. The article borrows from recent innovations in South African and Kenyan law to propose a reform in India to enhance accountability. Professor Peltz-Steele proposes leveraging human rights norms to foster journalistic access to information about private investment in social and economic development.
The article appears in the peer-reviewed Research Journal Social Sciences, a publication of Panjab University in Chandigarh, India. Panjab is a public university on 550 acres in northern India, enrolling 17,000 students in 78 departments and 15 centers for teaching and research, including a law school. More than 250,000 more students are enrolled in 198 constituent and affiliated colleges and centers throughout the region. Founded in 1882, Panjab was split in the 1947 partition of India from the University of Punjab, now in Pakistan.
Professor Peltz-Steele’s article appears in an issue of the Research Journal dedicated to development and mass communication. Professor Peltz-Steele was invited to contribute by the special editor of the issue, Dr. Manish Verma, who serves as director of International Affairs and director of the School of Media at Amity University Jaipur in Rajasthan. Dr. Verma is a Ph.D. graduate of Panjab University and an alumnus of the Executive Program in Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard University.
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Article download from SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3276843
The Savory Tort: http://www.thesavorytort.com/
Research Journal Social Sciences: http://purjss.puchd.ac.in/
Panjab University: http://puchd.ac.in/