The politics of secrecy. Confidential government and the public

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The politics of secrecy. Confidential government and the public
right to know.
libdoc October=1991

Author(s) Michael James
Publisher: Pelican 1982 pp240 Bibliography Index

OSA Parliament Media Privacy Law

Contents include:
Chapters:

Introduction
1. The secretive state
2. `Nanny knows best' and other reasons
3. Calculated blunderbuss: the Official Secrets Act
4. Secrets kept from Parliament
5. `Muzzled sheep?': secrecy and the press
6. Seen to be done: secrecy and the courts
7. Race to 1984: `Data privacy'
8. Opening government: the American way
9. The Scandinavian way, and other efforts
10. Lessons from other lands
11. Opening British government
Postscript

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