Executive secrecy and democratic politics : arguments and practices in the German Bundestag / Dorothee Riese.
2023
KK6071.5
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Title
Executive secrecy and democratic politics : arguments and practices in the German Bundestag / Dorothee Riese.
ISBN
9783031306051 (electronic bk.)
3031306058 (electronic bk.)
9783031306044
303130604X
3031306058 (electronic bk.)
9783031306044
303130604X
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-30605-1 doi
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KK6071.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.4306
Summary
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. Dorothee Riese is a political scientist currently working at Fernuniversität Hagen after appointments at Leipzig University and Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. She studied at Leipzig University and Sciences Po Paris and obtained her PhD from Leiden University. Dorothee is the 2017 Rudolf-Wildenmann-Prize winner for a paper on Public Private Partnership secrecy.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 1, 2023).
Series
New perspectives in German political studies, 2947-6755
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Print version: 9783031306044
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