"Routledge Focus" -- from cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Legislative secrecy in deliberation and voting / co-authored with Suzanne Bloks. Government transparency : grounds and limits -- Reclaiming raison d'etat : the necessity of executive secrecy -- Do states have a right to privacy? -- Democratic authority of government secrecy -- Legislative secrecy in deliberation and voting / co-authored with Suzanne Bloks.
Summary:
"In the wake of controversial disclosures of classified government information by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, questions about secrecy and the legitimacy of political institutions is rarely far from the headlines. Furthermore, state secrecy persists both in the foreign and domestic policy of democratic states, in the form of classified intelligence programs, espionage, secret military operations, diplomatic discretion, closed-door political bargaining, and bureaucratic opacity. This book explores important philosophical questions and issues surrounding democratic secrecy, above all whether the state's claim to restrict access to information can be justified. Dorota Mokrosinka examines the democratic status of secret uses of political power, arguing that secrecy is in fact a fundamental form of democratic governance, rather than an exception, and that secrecy protects the integrity of the democratic decision-making process. Examples such as the Manhattan Project, the Iraq war, collaboration between international secret services, secret voting and the Wiki-Leaks and Snowden disclosures are used throughout the book. State Secrecy and Democracy: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for those in political philosophy, ethics, politics, international relations and security studies and law"-- Provided by publisher.
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