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"This book provides an overall view of trust for e-services including definitions, constructs, and relationships with other research topics such as security, privacy, reputation and risk. It offers contributions from real-life experience and practice on how to build a trust environment for e-government services"--Provided by publisher

Overview -- Energy, load, and generation technologies -- The grid -- Short-term utility planning -- Long-term utility planning -- Midterm utility planning -- A market environment -- Asset management in short-term markets -- Investment analysis : long-term planning in a market environment -- Risk management in the midterm markets -- The California experience

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil's recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the effects of the disclosure of local government corruption practices upon the re-election success of incumbent mayors. Comparing municipalities audited before and after the elections, we show that the audit policy reduced the incumbent's likelihood of re-election by approximately 20 percent, and was more pronounced in municipalities with radio stations. These findings highlight the value of information and the role of the media in reducing informational asymmetries in the political process.