Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies (eBook, PDF)

Contested Trade-offs
Redaktion: Mokrosinska, Dorota

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429652073
• Artikelnr.: 60310300

Autorenporträt

Dorota Mokrosinska is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and the Programme Director of the Centre for Political Philosophy at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies Part I: The
Drive to Transparency 1. The Janus Face of Transparency: Balancing Openness
and Secrecy in Democratic Decision-making 2. Freedom of Information in
Europe: Creation, Context and Conflict Part II: Transparency and Secrecy:
Day-to-Day Trade-offs 3. The Ambiguity of Leaks: Transparency and Secrecy
in the EU 4. European Secrecy and Post-9/11 Security Practice 5. What the
Eye Cannot See: Justifying Limits to Freedom of Information in the
Diplomatic Context 6. Self-reinforcing Secrecy: Cultures of Secrecy within
Intelligence Agencies 7. Paradoxical secrecy in British Freedom of
Information Law Part III: Oversight and Accountability 8. Secrecy and the
Preservation of the Democratic State: The Concept of Raison d'état in the
German Bundestag 9. State Secrecy in the Age of Terror: The Italian Case in
a Comparative Perspective 10. Political Whistleblowing in Europe: Official
Secrets, Freedom of Expression and the Rule of Law