The Demand for Transparency as Non-Reformist Reform
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
1-15-2024
Publisher
The Law and Political Economy Project
Language
en-US
Abstract
One common myth about legal progress is that the sheer force of good, persuasive arguments creates positive change. The best arguments carry the day, or so we are told by films and folk histories. But organizers constantly remind me otherwise. The how is just as important than the what. While we should not fetishize tactics, neither should we ignore how demands are made, on behalf of whom, and what other demands they accompany. The same demand that inspires little confidence as part of one broader political vision can, as part of another, transform how people relate to each other and their government. Something anodyne in one context can be electric in another.
Recommended Citation
Zohra Ahmed,
The Demand for Transparency as Non-Reformist Reform
,
LPE Project Blog
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/273
Publisher URL
https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-demand-for-transparency-as-non-reformist-reform/
