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Federal Register, 269 Gandhi Peace Foundation, 43 Feinstein, Andrew, 234 Gandhi, Shailesh, 39–40 Financial Management and Account- GDP. See Gross Domestic Product ability Act (1997), 200 General Agreement on Tariffs and Finland, 247 Trade, 67, 243 Florini, Ann, 1, 13, 337 genetically modified organisms FOI. See freedom of information (GMOs), 301; labeling for, 302–3; FOI compliance, 191 opponents of, 301–2; proponents FOI laws, 2, 246; “gold standard” of, of, 302; tracking of, 302 12; in India, 9; for Nigeria trans- “ghost employees,” 193 parency, 154–60 “ghost works,” 28 FOIA. See Freedom of Information Act Global Forest Watch, 301 FOIA laws, 285 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), 225 Ford Foundation, 162, 188 Global Witness, 224 forestry concerns, 294 globalization, 2, 12, 347 Forestry Stewardship Council, 300 GMOs. See genetically modified forums, 97, 290 organisms Fourth Plenum of 16th Party Central Gonzales, Alberto, 315–16 Committee (China), 64 Gonzáles, Felipe, 330 Fox, Vincente, 344 governance, 1, 33, 39–41; see also envi- Frankel, Maurice, 207 ronmental governance fraud, 28 government, 152, 197; Blair, 317; free expression, 330 effectiveness/efficiency, 338–39; Freedom from Debt Coalition (Philip- E-government, 61, 100; of Nigeria, pines), 251 172n21; secrecy, 218; transpar- freedom of information (FOI), 2 ency as principle of democratic, Freedom of Information Act (China), 341; see also Bush administration; 74 intergovernmental organizations; Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Johnson administration; Nixon 8, 13, 158, 191, 200, 229, 249, 268, administration; nongovernment 324; amending, 44–46; citizens organizations; open government and, 281; compliance with, 344; information detainees under, 319; early years Gowon, Yakubu, 146, 149 of, 315; enactment of, 280; excep- Graham, Mary, 217, 218, 219 tions to, 312 Great Britain, 7, 207; see also United Freedom of Information Act (Trinidad Kingdom and Tobago), 205 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolu- Freedom of Information Act (United tion—China (1966–76), 54, 58 Kingdom), 311 Greenpeace, 271, 294–95, 301 Freedom of Information Advocates GRI. See Global Reporting Initiative Network and Web site, 135 Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 99 Freedom of Information Bill (India), Guangdong, China, 322 44 Guangzhou Office of Legislative Af- Freedom of Information Law (Belize), fairs, 70 185 Guangzhou OGI Provisions, 70–71, Fujimori, Alberto, 185 74, 89n48 Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 319 Galbraith, J. K., 216 Gulf War, 146, 156, 157 358 index

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