Scotland and the politics of intelligence accountability
Date
03/2017Metadata
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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
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2399-6668Type
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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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