Government secrecy

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Maret, Susan
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
• Σειρά: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 19.
• Θέματα: Political Science > General.; Political Science > Government > General.; Political Science > Public Policy > General.; Political science & theory.; Politics & government.; Official secrets.

 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 Simmels (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. 

 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 activity reporting : U.S. domestic intelligence in a postprivacy age? / Kenneth Farrall -- Classifying knowledge, creating secrets : government policy for dual-use technology / Jonathan Felbinger, Judith Reppy -- Statecrafting ignorance : strategies for managing burdens, secrecy, and conflict / Brian Rappert, Richard Moyes, A.N. Other -- Corruption, secrecy, and access-to-information legislation in Africa : a cross-national study of political institutions / Jeannine E. Relly -- Mexico's transparency reforms : theory and practice / Jonathan Fox, Libby Haight -- Is open source intelligence an ethical issue? / Hamilton Bean -- 'Open secrets' : the masked dynamics of ethical failures and administrative evil / Guy B. Adams, Danny L. Balfour -- The corrupting influence of secrecy on national policy decisions / J. William Leonard.