The Politics of Lying
Subtitle: Implications for Democracy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780312231392
Subjects: Freedom Of Information; Public Administration; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / General; General; Case studies; Deception; Great Britain; Official secrets; United States
Description: "Secrecy and deception by those in power is commonplace in contemporary politics. They seem to be even more pervasive and are generating widespread cynicism among the public. Yet this is the first work to give this phenomenon of 'official lying' pride of place and subject it to critical assessment. It also breaks new ground in combining the perspectives of political philosophy and political sociological analysis in that assessment."--BOOK JACKET.