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Scotland and the politics of intelligence accountability

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Date
03/2017
Author
Atkinson, Colin
Brooke, Nicholas Steven Thomas
Harris, Brian Andrew
Keywords
Scotland
Nationalism
Independence
Security
JN1187 Scotland
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Abstract
In a democratic society, accountability is the requirement for those in positions of power to provide answers to those whom they serve. Accountability depends, therefore, upon either the presence of an informed, inquisitive, and engaged public or an array of elected representatives with similar qualities who act on the public’s behalf. Although seemingly straightforward, accountability is not a simple administrative task; it poses a series of profound and fundamentally political challenges concerning the shape, composition, scope, power and limitations of any such regime
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Atkinson , C , Brooke , N S T & Harris , B A 2017 , Scotland and the politics of intelligence accountability . in A W Neal (ed.) , Security in a small nation : Scotland, democracy, politics . , 5 , Open Report Series , vol. 4 , Open Book Publishers , pp. 125-148 . https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0078.05
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Security in a small nation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0078.05
ISSN
2399-6668
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© 2017 C. Atkinson, N. Brooke and B. Harris This is an open access work, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/524/security-in-a-small-nation--scotland--democracy--politics
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16218

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