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Secrets and Democracy

From Arcana Imperii to WikiLeaks

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Lawrence Quill

    1. Department of Political Science, San José State University, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Darkness Visible

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 1-12

  3. Theory’s Secret History

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 13-41

  4. Liberal Secrets

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 42-66

  5. Secrecy and the Liberal State

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 67-93

  6. Privacy and Secrecy

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 94-123

  7. Life after WikiLeaks

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 124-148

  8. Conclusion: Secrecy and Silence

    • Lawrence Quill
    Pages 149-152

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 153-182
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, San José State University, USA

    Lawrence Quill

About the author

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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