布什政府信息公开政策的变化、影响及其启示

Changes and Impacts of Information Policies in the Bush Administration

2001年以来,布什政府制定了一系列相关的政府信息公开政策,具有明显的变化特征。布什政府信息公开政策的执行,导致了机密信息增加、公开信息减少、信息公开申请延误、行政机关缺乏回应;布什政府信息公开政策在增强国家信息安全保护的同时,限制了政府信息的公开和取用,对公民权利、民主参与、政府威信、科技和教育、政府信息资源的开发利用等造成了较大的影响。布什政府信息政策的变化与影响带给我们许多有益的启示。

The Bush administration has created a series of government information policies since 2001,which has distinctive characteristics of policy changes.The implementation of these information policies resulted in the increase of secret information,decrease in information openness,request excessive delay,and lack of responsiveness.While enhancing national information security,the Bush administration's information policies have limited openness and access to government information,and influenced the right of citizen,democratic participation,government prestige,scientific and educational,and exploitation of government information.The changes and impacts of information policies of the Bush administration will give some inspiration to Chinese Government.