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Secrets and Democracy: From Arcana Imperii to Wikileaks
Lawrence Quill
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Description for Secrets and Democracy: From Arcana Imperii to Wikileaks
Hardcover. Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient world to the modern, this book considers the growing importance of secrets, the dilemmas this poses to conceptions of democracy and the challenges that collecting secrets poses to publicity and privacy in the network society. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPVH2; JPW; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient world to the modern, this book considers the growing importance of secrets, the dilemmas this poses to conceptions of democracy and the challenges that collecting secrets poses to publicity and privacy in the network society.
Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient world to the modern, this book considers the growing importance of secrets, the dilemmas this poses to conceptions of democracy and the challenges that collecting secrets poses to publicity and privacy in the network society.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230367777
SKU
V9780230367777
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About Lawrence Quill
Lawrence Quill is Professor of Political Science at San José State University, San José, USA where he teaches courses in political theory. He is the author of Liberty after Liberalism (London: Palgrave, 2006) and Civil Disobedience: (Un)Common Sense in Mass Democracies (London: Palgrave, 2009).
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