1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480801203321

Autore

Worthy Ben

Titolo

The politics of freedom of information : How and why governments pass laws that threaten their power / / Ben Worthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-5261-0852-6

1-5261-0851-8

1-5261-2415-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

342.08/53

Soggetti

Freedom of information - Political aspects

Freedom of information - Political aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Manchester, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-225) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, though it went on to be controversial and disruptive nonetheless.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968181703321

Autore

Castiglia Christopher

Titolo

Interior states : institutional consciousness and the inner life of democracy in the antebellum United States / / Christopher Castiglia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

9786613022868

9781283022866

1283022869

9780822389248

082238924X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

810.9/358

810.9358

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Democracy in literature

Self in literature

Democracy - Psychological aspects

Democracy - Philosophy

Affect (Psychology) - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Emotions - Social aspects - History - 19th century

Affect (Psychology) - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Emotions - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Interiority and the Problem of Misplaced Democracy -- 1. "Matters of Internal Concern": Federal Affect and the Melancholy Citizen -- 2. Bad Associations: Sociality, Interiority, Institutionalism -- 3. Abolition's Racial Interiors and White Civic Depth -- 4. Ardent Spirits: Intemperate Sociality and the Inner Life of Capital -- 5. Anxiety, Desire, and the Nervous State -- 6. Between Consciousness and Revolution:



Romanticism and Racial Interiority -- 7. "I Want My Happiness!" Alienated Affections, Queer Sociality, and the Marvelous Interiors of the American Romance -- Epilogue. Humanism without Humans: The Possibilities of Post-Interior Democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores changing forms of interiority as produced in relation to the state in nineteenth century America and the current day.