Simon Lewis, the former director of communications for 10 Downing Street Simon Lewis, once was reported to hold the belief that corporate sector had gone further than either political parties or the news media to embrace transparency and his hunch was that the British people would have more influence on politics.
But my belief is that political communication will never catch up with corporate sector anywhere in the world for the reason that politics is simply too complicated to be transparent.
Take China as an example, whose political communication is quite notorious. It is of course very easy to criticize its Great Fire Wall, 50cent Party, and what happen to the human right fighter Ai Weiwei(I am reluctant to consider him as an artist).
I am certainly not at all proud of the above. But if you wear the hat of governor of a vast country with the world’s third largest territory and world’s largest population comprising of 56 ethnic groups, with relatively low and uneven economy and education level, and sharing borders of 14 countries (most in the world along with Russia and that doesn’t include Japan and south Korea which are also important neighbors), and realize there are still more international hostile forces to wrestle with, you will probably feel a bit need to put down pointing fingers and more need to provide helpful suggestions.
It is far from whether politicians are willing to be transparent in communication but rather how to survive from tussling among numerous interest groups, both domestically and internationally. It then not only determines fates of tens, hundreds or thousands of people from several companies, but millions or even billions in China’s case of human beings. There is no political ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ but immortal ‘interests’ only.
For background information about 50cent Party and Ai Weiwei:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7783640.stm
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