Ebook: Government Secrecy

FRONT COVER; GOVERNMENT SECRECY; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: GOVERNMENT SECRECY; WHY GOVERNMENT SECRECY?; WE KNOW IT WHEN WE SEE IT; A WAY TO SECRECY AND GOVERNMENT SECRECY: A PROPOSAL FOR SECRECY STUDIES; THE SAGE OF SECRECY STUDIES, GEORG SIMMEL; VOLUME 19: GOVERNMENT SECRECY; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; PART I: MUSINGS ON SECRECY, PRIVACY, CENSORSHIP, AND CONSPIRACY; SIGMUND FREUD AS A THEORIST OF GOVERNMENT SECRECY; PRIVACY AND SECRECY: PUBLIC RESERVE AND THE HANDLING OF THE BP GULF OIL DISASTER.;This volume examines government secrecy in a variety of contexts, including comparative examination of government control of information, new definitions, categories, censorship, ethics, and secrecy's relationship with freedom of information and transparency. It expands on the theoretical and policy literature of government secrecy, freedom of information and transparency.