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news-007994		Research shows government transparency benefits special interest groups, not citizenry | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame			.html	text/html	1182	43	44	However, Jeff Harden, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and his colleague Justin Kirkland (at the University of Virginia), found that, rather than state government transparency benefitting everyday citizens, it favors special interest groups. Using measures of the agreement between what state governments do and what citizens want, Harden and Kirkland found that whether state government meetings are closed or open, the results are the same: Public policy is equally correlated with public opinion, whether a state legislature has open meetings or not.	cache/news-007994.html	txt/news-007994.txt