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  title info:
    title: Secrets and democracy
    sub title: from arcana imperii to WikiLeaks
  name:
    name part: Quill, Lawrence
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 182 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: As governments actively collect and analyze more information about their populations than ever before, citizens struggle to defend their privacy and determine which state secrets are legitimate and which are not. Jurisdictional complexity, the inability of representatives to gain access to relevant information, citizens' relative lack of expertise and the partisanship that exists between different government agencies make oversight difficult. Secrets and Democracy considers afresh the role that secrets play within liberal democracies and the impact this has on the public's 'right to know,' the individual's 'right to privacy' and the government's penchant for secrecy and data collection. Now, perhaps more than ever, secrecy (and the disclosure of secrets) is in the public eye thanks to the phenomenon of WikiLeaks. However, this book places WikiLeaks in the context of centuries-old discussion of the necessity of secrecy, as well as contemporary debate concerning the relative merits of privacy, openness, transparency and accountability.
  table of contents: Introduction: darkness visible -- Theory's secret history -- Liberal secrets -- Secrecy and the liberal state -- Privacy and secrecy -- Life after WikiLeaks -- Conclusion: secrecy and silence.
  note: Lawrence Quill.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Official secrets
  subject:
    topic: Government information
  subject:
    name:
      name part: WikiLeaks (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Freedom of information
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  classification: JF1525.S4 Q85 2014
  classification: 352.3/79
  identifier: 9780230367777
  identifier: 0230367771
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140410
    record change date: 20140724084608.0
    record identifier: in00003465854