The Logic of Privacy, Transparency, and Self- Governance
Bruno, Jonathan Richard
Transparency" is the constant refrain of democratic politics, a promised aid to
accountability and integrity in public life. Secrecy is stigmatized as a work of corruption, tolerable (if
at all) by a compromise of democratic principles. My dissertation challenges both ideas. It argues
that secrecy and transparency are best understood as complementary, not contradictory, practices.
And it develops a normative account of liberal democratic polit...