Executive Secrecy and Democratic Politics: Arguments and Practices in the German Bundestag
Dorothee Riese
This book investigates the parliamentary negotiation of executive secrecy. Parliaments depend on information to fulfil their roles as the people’s representatives, legislators and overseers of the executive. However, there are examples of executive secrecy across all policy fields. How, then, do parliamentary actors try to reconcile secrecy and the normative demands of an open, democratic society? This volume analyses parliamentary arguments, conflicts and patterns of agreement around this topic in the case of Germany. Based on two case studies – intelligence agencies secrecy and Public Private Partnership secrecy – it argues that substantive justifications of secrecy focusing on necessity are highly contested. By contrast, procedural legitimation of secrecy, namely deciding about it democratically, is crucial. Still, there are inherent limits to the legitimation of executive secrecy. The book therefore underlines the fragility of secrecy’s legitimation, and its need for constant actualisation.
년:
2023
출판사:
Palgrave Macmillan
언어:
english
페이지:
204
ISBN 10:
303130604X
ISBN 13:
9783031306044
파일:
PDF, 2.92 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2023
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