Government secrecy

Government secrecy / edited by Susan Maret.

"Government secrecy (GS) is a significant social, political, and policy issue and often presents as a barrier to civic participation, public right-to-know, historical understanding, and institutional accountability. This volume examines GS in a variety of contexts, including comparative examina...

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Other Authors: Maret, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 19.
Subjects:
Official secrets.
Freedom of information.
Transparency (Ethics) in government.
Government information.
National security.
Political science & theory.
Politics & government.
Political Science > General.
Political Science > Government > General.
Political Science > Public Policy > General.
Freedom of information
Government information
National security
Official secrets
Transparency in government
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : government secrecy / Susan Maret
  • Sigmund Freud as a theorist of government secrecy / David N. Gibbs
  • Privacy and secrecy : public reserve and the handling of the BP gulf oil disaster / Michael R. Edelstein
  • Taxonomy of concepts related to the censorship of history / Antoon de Baets
  • Secrecy and disclosure : policies and consequences in the American experience / Thomas C. Ellington
  • Government secrecy and conspiracy theories / Kathryn S. Olmsted
  • The Israeli paradox : the military censorship as a protector of the freedom of the press / Hillel Nossek, Yehiel Limor
  • National security, secrecy and the media : a British view / Nicholas Wilkinson
  • Project censored international : colleges and universities validate independent news and challenge global media censorship / Peter Philips, Mickey Huff
  • Operation Pedro Pan : the hidden history of 14,000 Cuban children / Susan Maret, Lea Aschenkas
  • Secrecy reform or secrecy redux? : access to information in the Obama administration / Patrice McDermott
  • Secrecy, complicity, and resistance : political control of climate science communication under the Bush-Cheney administration / Rick Plitz
  • Suspicious activity reporting : U.S. domestic intelligence in a postprivacy age? / Kenneth Farrall
  • Classifying knowledge, creating secrets : government policy for dual-use technology / Jonathan Felbinger, Judith Reppy
  • Statecrafting ignorance : strategies for managing burdens, secrecy, and conflict / Brian Rappert, Richard Moyes, A.N. Other
  • Corruption, secrecy, and access-to-information legislation in Africa : a cross-national study of political institutions / Jeannine E. Relly
  • Mexico's transparency reforms : theory and practice / Jonathan Fox, Libby Haight
  • Is open source intelligence an ethical issue? / Hamilton Bean
  • 'Open secrets' : the masked dynamics of ethical failures and administrative evil / Guy B. Adams, Danny L. Balfour
  • The corrupting influence of secrecy on national policy decisions / J. William Leonard.

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