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    How did government ‘transparency’ get so important?

    When did we get so big on our government being transparent? It wasn't always that way, an expert explains in this video.
    by Kendall Boyda-NYU Mar 20, 2019 0 minutes
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    Though we talk a lot about government transparency today, Americans didn’t always expect it of their leaders, according to Stefanos Geroulanos.

    “Transparency as we understand it today really is a very novel invention,” says Geroulanos, associate professor of European intellectual history at New York University, who explains the origins of the political buzzword in this video:

    Source: New York University

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