Democratic secrecy

Political Science Quarterly

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-193

  Thompson, Dennis F ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2657736     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Information Security Oversight Office, Report to the President, 1995 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [hereafter GPO], 1996), ii.
2. Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (Washington, DC: GPO, 1997).
3. Ibid.
4. Itzhak Galnoor, ed., Government Secrecy in Democracies (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald C. Rowat, ed., Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Kenneth G. Robertson, Public Secrets: A Study of the Development of Government Secrecy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994); Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); and David Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy in Britain, 1832-1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
5. Itzhak Galnoor, ed., Government Secrecy in Democracies (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald C. Rowat, ed., Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Kenneth G. Robertson, Public Secrets: A Study of the Development of Government Secrecy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994); Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); and David Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy in Britain, 1832-1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
6. Itzhak Galnoor, ed., Government Secrecy in Democracies (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald C. Rowat, ed., Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Kenneth G. Robertson, Public Secrets: A Study of the Development of Government Secrecy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994); Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); and David Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy in Britain, 1832-1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
7. Itzhak Galnoor, ed., Government Secrecy in Democracies (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald C. Rowat, ed., Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Kenneth G. Robertson, Public Secrets: A Study of the Development of Government Secrecy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994); Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); and David Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy in Britain, 1832-1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
8. Itzhak Galnoor, ed., Government Secrecy in Democracies (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald C. Rowat, ed., Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Kenneth G. Robertson, Public Secrets: A Study of the Development of Government Secrecy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994); Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); and David Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy in Britain, 1832-1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
9. Itzhak Galnoor, ed., Government Secrecy in Democracies (New York: Harper & Row, 1977); Donald C. Rowat, ed., Administrative Secrecy in Developed Countries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979); Kenneth G. Robertson, Public Secrets: A Study of the Development of Government Secrecy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Mark J. Rozell, Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994); Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); and David Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy in Britain, 1832-1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
10. Francis E. Rourke, Secrecy and Publicity: Dilemmas of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1966). But see Sissela Bok, Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982), 102-115, 171-190.
11. Francis E. Rourke, Secrecy and Publicity: Dilemmas of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1966). But see Sissela Bok, Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982), 102-115, 171-190.
12. David Nacht, "The Iran-Contra Affair" in Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, eds., Ethics and Politics, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1997), 57-66.
13. Graham T. Allison and Lance M. Liebman, "Lying in Office" in ibid., 49-53.
14. For discussions of the publicity principle, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 95-127; and David Luban, "The Publicity Principle" in Robert E. Goodin, ed., The Theory of Institutional Design (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 154-198.
15. For discussions of the publicity principle, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 95-127; and David Luban, "The Publicity Principle" in Robert E. Goodin, ed., The Theory of Institutional Design (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 154-198.
16. For contemporaneous editorial comments on the secret deliberations, see "Health Team Needs Breathing Room," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 31 March 1993; and "Let's All Be Health Care Insiders," New York Times, 13 March 1993.
17. For contemporaneous editorial comments on the secret deliberations, see "Health Team Needs Breathing Room," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 31 March 1993; and "Let's All Be Health Care Insiders," New York Times, 13 March 1993.
18. The first federal court ruling was American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., v. Clinton, Civil Action No. 93-0399, 11 March 1993, 813 F. Supp. 82, 1993 U.S. Dist.
19. On the difficulties with these forms of accountability, see Dennis F. Thompson, Political Ethics and Public Office (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987), 22-31.
20. Associated Press, "U.S. Looking Into Undercover Drug Manipulation," New York Times, 29 November 1988.
21. Shirley Letwin, The Pursuit of Certainty (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1965), 173.
22. Meir Dan-Cohen, "Decision Rules and Conduct Rules: On Acoustic Separation in Criminal Law," Harvard Law Review 97 (January 1984): 625-677.
23. "Gay Rights in the Military: The Pentagon's New Policy Guidelines on Homosexuals in the Military," New York Times, 20 July 1993.
24. Clifford Krauss, "With Caveat, House Approves Gay-Troops Policy," New York Times, 29 September 1993.
25. Thomas L. Friedman, "Gay Rights in the Military," New York Times, 21 July 1993.
26. Judith Shklar, Ordinary Vices (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), 47.
27. Ibid.
28. Dennis F. Thompson, "Hypocrisy and Democracy" in Bernard Yack, ed., Liberalism Without Illusions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 173-90.
29. Theodore Draper, A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs (New York: Hill and Wang, 1991), 25-26, 33-37, 344.