Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies: Contested Trade-Offs

ISBN-13: 9780367133405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str.

Dorota Mokrosinska

Opis

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical context.

Spis treści

Introduction: Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies  Part I: The Drive to Transparency  1. The Janus Face of Transparency: Balancing Openness and Secrecy in Democratic Decision-making  2. Freedom of Information in Europe: Creation, Context and Conflict  Part II: Transparency and Secrecy: Day-to-Day Trade-offs  3. The Ambiguity of Leaks: Transparency and Secrecy in the EU  4. European Secrecy and Post-9/11 Security Practice 5. What the Eye Cannot See: Justifying Limits to Freedom of Information in the Diplomatic Context  6. Self-reinforcing Secrecy: Cultures of Secrecy within Intelligence Agencies  7. Paradoxical secrecy in British Freedom of Information Law  Part III: Oversight and Accountability  8. Secrecy and the Preservation of the Democratic State: The Concept of Raison d’état in the German Bundestag  9. State Secrecy in the Age of Terror: The Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective  10. Political Whistleblowing in Europe: Official Secrets, Freedom of Expression and the Rule of Law

O autorze

Dorota Mokrosinska is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and the Programme Director of the Centre for Political Philosophy at Leiden University, The Netherlands.