The Rise of the Right to Know : : Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975 / / Michael Schudson.
Modern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s—well before the Internet. Michael Schudson shows how the “right to know” has defined a new era for democracy—less focus on parties and elections, more pluralism and more players, year-round monitoring of government, and a blurring line between...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 graph, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- one. A Cultural Right to Know
- two. Origins of the Freedom of Information Act
- three. The Consumer’s Right to Be Informed
- four. Opening Up Congress
- five. The Media’s Presence
- six “To Let People Know in Time”
- seven. Transparency in a Transformed Democracy
- eight. Disclosure and Its Discontents
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index