State Secrecy and Democracy - A Philosophical Inquiry

State Secrecy and Democracy: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for those in political philosophy, ethics, politics, international relations and security studies and law.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Government transparency: grounds and limits 3. Reclaiming raison d'état: the necessity of executive secrecy 4. Do states have a right to privacy? 5. Democratic authority of government secrecy 6. Legislative secrecy in deliberation and voting co-authored with Suzanne Bloks. Bibliography Index

About the author

Dorota Mokrosinska is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Rethinking Political Obligation: Moral Principles, Communal Ties, Citizenship (2012), co-editor (with B. Roessler) of Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2015), and Secrecy and Transparency in European Democracies: Contested Trade-Offs (Routledge, 2020).

Product details

• Authors: Dorota (Leiden University Mokrosinska, Mokrosinska Dorota
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780367539276
• ISBN: 978-0-367-53927-6
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Routledge Focus on Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, The arts, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, wikileaks;Assange;Snowden;Iraq;Manhattan project