The Official Record
Oversight, National Security and Democracy
$193.04
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
The construction, control, and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. Those seeking greater openness and (democratic) accountability argue ‘sunlight is […] the best of disinfectants,’ while others seek stricter information control because, to their mind, sound government arises when advice and policy are formulated secretly.
This edited volume explores the intersection of the Official Record, oversight, national security, and democracy. Through U…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526174321 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526174324 |
| Author: | Peter Finn, Robert Ledger |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 427g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘In March 2025, United States (US) based magazine, The Atlantic, published details of US government executives planning airstrikes on Houthi controlled areas of Yemen. Having been inadvertently added to a group on open source, encrypted chat platform, Signal, which included the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency Director, The Atlantic’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed details of a policy making process that was arguably never intended to enter the official record, let alone the public or historical records… The Official Record: Oversight, national security and democracy is therefore an uncannily timely, as well as thoroughly researched and genuinely interesting, edited volume that details a variety of recent historical moments where the official, public and historical records have collided, overlapped or been confused from their usual, ordered existence.’
Tony Craig, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
About The Author
Peter Finn
Peter Finn is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology at Kingston University.
Robert Ledger is a guest researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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