Screen LibraryThe transparency fix : secrets, leaks, and uncontrollable government information /
Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of government leaks? Mark Fenster asserts that we incorrectly assume that government information can be controlled. The same impulse that drives transparency...
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Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of government leaks? Mark Fenster asserts that we incorrectly assume that government information can be controlled. The same impulse that drives transparency movements also drives secrecy advocates. They all hold the mistaken belief that government information can either be released or kept secure on command. Fenster argues for a reformation in our assumptions about secrecy and transparency. The world did not end because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and |
| Carrier Form: | 286 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781503602663 1503602664 9781503601710 1503601714 |
| Index Number: | KF5753 |
| CLC: | D971.221 |
| Call Number: | D971.221/F341 |
| Contents: | Introduction : the transparent state we want but can't have -- Liberating the family jewels : "free" information and "open" government in the post-war legal imaginary -- Supplementing the transparency fix : innovations in the wake of law's inadequacies -- Transparency's limits : balancing the open and secret state -- The uncontrollable state -- The impossible archive of government information -- Disclosure's effects? -- The implausibility of information control -- The disappointments of megaleaks -- Conclusion : the West Wing, the West Wing, and abandoning the informational fix. |