Government secrecy

by Maret, Susan

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"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 examination of government control of information, new definitions, categories, censorship, ethics, and secrecys relationship with freedom of information and transparency. It investigates GS in terms of its curre…

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  • Full title :Government secrecy / edited by Susan Maret.

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"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 examination of government control of information, new definitions, categories, censorship, ethics, and secrecys relationship with freedom of information and transparency. It investigates GS in terms of its current theoretical descriptions as power over and concealment of information (Bok 1983), a tampering of communications (Friedrich 1972), the compulsory withholding of knowledge, reinforced by the prospects of sanctions for disclosure (Shils), or Georg Simmel's (1906) idea of secrecy creating the possibility of a second world. Following the introduction this book is divided into the following six sections: Government Secrecy: Theoretical Musings; Government Secrecy and the Media; Government Secrecy and Technology; Freedom of Information; Government Secrecy: Current Policy; and Ethics. Articles are sourced from around the world and include some from USA, Mexico, Africa, Israel and Britain."--EBL book details.

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  • Publication Date:2011.
  • Edition:1st ed

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Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 02 mai 2012).

TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.

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  • Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn840860987
  • LC Classification:JF1525.S4
  • Dewey Decimal:323.445

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Musings on secrecy, privacy, censorship, and conspiracy -- pt. 2. Government secrecy and national security -- pt. 3. Government secrecy : current policy -- pt. 4. Government secrecy : ethical tensions.

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Subjects

access to information Executive privilege (Government informa… Freedom of information Liberté d'information Livres électroniques Official secrets Privilège de l'exécutif (Information su… Secrets d'État Transparence (Sciences sociales) Transparency in government

Writers

Maret, Susan

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