Government secrecy / edited by Susan Maret.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maret, Susan.

Series:

Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 19.

Research in social problems and public policy, 0196-1152 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Official secrets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786613016362

9781283016360

1283016362

9780857243904

085724390X

OCLC:

704438912