State Secrecy and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780367539238 / Twarda / 2023 / 136 str.

Netherlands) Mokrosinska Dorota (Leiden University

Opis

State Secrecy and Democracy: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for those in political philosophy, ethics, politics, international relations and security studies and law.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Government transparency: grounds and limits  3. Reclaiming raison d’état: the necessity of executive secrecy  4. Do states have a right to privacy?  5. Democratic authority of government secrecy  6. Legislative secrecy in deliberation and voting co-authored with Suzanne Bloks.  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Dorota Mokrosinska is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Rethinking Political Obligation: Moral Principles, Communal Ties, Citizenship (2012), co-editor (with B. Roessler) of Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2015), and Secrecy and Transparency in European Democracies: Contested Trade-Offs (Routledge, 2020).