Hiding in Plain Sight: Selective Disclosure in Public Budget Transparency

DENG, Qianlei created a dataset for the paper 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Selective Disclosure in Public Budget Transparency'. The data was last updated on June 1, 2026, and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse. Most of the data is derived from the International Budget Partnership.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns of selective disclosure in public budgets based on transparency metrics.
• Benchmark national budget transparency practices based on international data sources.
• Study the relationship between budget disclosure and governance indicators.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the International Budget Partnership, a recognized authority on budget transparency.
• The dataset is associated with a specific, named academic paper, providing research context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

International Budget Partnership

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 19:56:10; freshness should be verified.