Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Transparent State We Want But Can’t Have 1
5. PART I: Transparency, Secrecy, and the Dream of Information Control
6. 1. Liberating the Family Jewels: “Free” Information and “Open” Government in the Post-War Legal Imaginary 19
7. 2. Supplementing the Transparency Fix: Innovations in the Wake of Law’s Inadequacies 42
8. 3. Transparency’s Limits: Balancing the Open and Secret State 56
9. PART II: Disentangling the Cybernetic Dream
10. 4. The Uncontrollable State 77
11. 5. The Impossible Archive of Government Information 103
12. 6. Disclosure’s Effects? 125
13. PART III: The Failures of Information Control
14. 7. The Implausibility of Information Control 153
15. 8. The Disappointments of Megaleaks 174
16. Conclusion: The West Wing, the West Wing, and Abandoning the Informational Fix 193
17. Epilogue 201
18. Notes 205
19. Index 277