Transparency - One of the Responsibilities of both Government and Citizenship

Why transparency of government is so important to citizens, and coversely why it is a responsibility of citizens to honestly and faithfully go about their lives with each other and with their government, has to do with the freedom of the individual and the source of his or her action, and is presented in the paragraph below by Hayek.

From "The Constitution of Liberty" by Friedrich A. Hayek

"We can probably include all forms of violence under coercion, or at least maintain that a successful prevention of coercion will mean the prevention of all kinds of violence. There remains, however, one other kind of harmful action which is generally thought desirable to prevent and at first may seem distinct. This is fraud and deception. Yet, though it would be straining the meaning of words to call them "coercion," on examination it appears that the reasons why we want to prevent them are the same as those applying to coercion. Deception, like coercion, is a form of manipulating the data on which a person counts, in order to make him do what the deceiver wants him to do. Where it is successful, the deceived becomes in the same manner the unwilling tool, serving another man's ends without advancing his own. Though we have no single word to cover both, all we have said of coercion applies equally to fraud and deception."