Government secrecy

by Maret, Susan

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Title Statements

Full title :Government secrecy / edited by Susan Maret.

Summary

"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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Emerald
Place of Publication:Bingley, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxx, 434 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780857243904, 085724390X
oclc:ocn704438912
LC Classification:JF1525.S4
Dewey Decimal:323.445

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 act…

Subjects

Freedom of information Government information Information sur l'État Liberté d'information National security Official secrets Political Science -- General POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Political science & theory politics government Secrets d'État Transparency in government