The Structural Corruption Disclosure Act
Abstract
This artifact provides open-source model legislation for administrative transparency, public memory, and structural anti-corruption disclosure. The model constructs a public-memory framework for major federal administrative actions. It proposes that agencies create Public Memory Records containing rationale chains, structural influence tables, deviation reports where applicable, historical practice tables, and bibliographic evidence summaries. It also proposes annual Public Memory Ledgers designed for civic comprehension, research utility, machine readability, and historical continuity. The artifact uses “structural corruption” in a public-reasoning sense. It does not mean only bribery, criminal misconduct, or personal bad faith. It refers to the degradation of public reasoning, traceability, institutional memory, and civic accountability when major administrative action cannot be explained, compared, or reviewed in a durable public form. This is not enacted law, legal advice, a private right of action, or a substitute for the Administrative Procedure Act, the Freedom of Information Act, agency-specific disclosure statutes, inspector-general authority, congressional oversight, or judicial review. It is a public civic-education and legislative-design artifact illustrating one possible framework for administrative traceability, transparency, and public memory.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Law
Rights
and Freedoms
Public Policy and Administration Research
Academic Freedom and Politics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 25 April 2026
- Document type
- Preprint