What the Public Wants to Know
Mária Žuffová
Access to information (ATI) policies are perceived as serving predominantly a government oversight function, utilized by investigative journalists and activists to reveal political corruption or misconduct. In this study, I apply text-as-data methods to 37,356 information requests submitted to the UK central government through the online participation platform WhatDoTheyKnow over a decade to explore public information demand. I analyze what information citizens seek and categorize it based on th