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Secrets and Democracy - From Arcana Imperii to WikiLeaks (Hardcover)
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Secrets and Democracy - From Arcana Imperii to WikiLeaks (Hardcover)
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As governments actively collect and analyse 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
accountabilit
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