What AMZN HQ2 Search Tells Us About Government Transparency

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2025-05-16

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Sunil Dasgupta, hosts. Interview with Eric Stokan. “What AMZN HQ2 Search Tells Us About Government Transparency,” I Hate Politics (podcast). May 16, 2025. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bNPVzoK9pPWHkFYzINHUu.

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Abstract

There is a long tradition in political philosophy where democracy and transparency are equated. A new article in the Policy Studies Journal, by UMBC colleagues UMBC’s Eric Stokan, Ian Anson, University of Texas Austin’s Nathan Jensen studied the impact of government transparency on Amazon’s search for its second headquarters to find surprising conclusions: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70016 . Sunil Dasgupta talks with lead author Eric Stokan. Music by Frederick, MD,- based country-folk singer-songwriter Susanna Laird.