Oil industry lobbyists are using their influence in Washington and Brussels to try to undermine transparency measures that could help prevent future tyrants from emerging.
A culture of hidden peer review, hidden data, paywalled journal articles and performance-related bean counting undermine transparency and robustness in science.
However, we contend that the discrepancy between biobankers' optimism for results and the questionable conditions of sustainability, planning for termination, and specimen utilization, may inadvertently undermine transparency, informed consent, and ultimately, public trust.
Confusing voter categories undermine transparency and accountability in elections.
Critics say security holds undermine transparency and foster distrust of investigations into police-related deaths.
In short, fragmentation of actors and of accountabilities hinder and undermine transparency, efficiency and opens doors for corruption.
But two Democratic nonprofit groups that do not disclose their donors made payments last year to their affiliated "super PACs," a tactic that can be used to undermine transparency.
In places like Texas, New Jersey, and California, corporate efforts to undermine transparency, accountability, shared prosperity and competition are being thwarted by responsible legislators.
Unfortunately for taxpayers, not only has outsourcing these services and privatizing public infrastructure to for-profit companies failed to keep this promise, but too often it undermines transparency, and public accountability.
With the country still suffering from high unemployment and hard times in the wake of the financial crisis, it is almost unbelievable that the Senate would rush passage of measures that will undermine transparency and accountability in the capital markets, and expose our families to a new round of fraud and abuse.
The increasing use of closed-door "trilogue" negotiations between the European Commission, Council and Parliament undermines transparency and provides fertile ground for lobbyists.
