Replication data for: Transparency of Intergovernmental Organizations

One of the principal ways they can improve their accountability is by becoming more transparent, that is, offering more information to the public. Over the past decade some IOs have adopted official policies and changed their practices concerning public access to information, while others have not.

This study asks which IOs are likely to be transparent. To answer this question, it derives several hypotheses based on the existing international relations literature as well as the literature explaining government transparency in the domestic realm. The hypotheses focus on the roles of the principal actors affecting access-to-information from IOs: member states, IO bureaucracies and international non-governmental organizations.