Table of Contents

Chapter one: Taking transparency seriously Chapter two: The theory of publicity's civilising effect Chapter three: Research design Chapter four: Dressed for politics Chapter five: Letters from backstage Chapter six: The fault of deliberative theorists which demonstrates their point Appendices A. Comparability of private letters and public documents B. Total sample of documents Bibliography Index

About the Author

Daniel Naurin is Research Fellow at Goteborg University. He has previously been Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence, and visiting Fellow at the Sussex European Institute, Sussex University and at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm.

Reviews

This research has a striking and unusual challenge to current siren calls which see transparency in public policy making as an unqualified good, and could in time become a citation classic. Professor Justin Greenwood, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen I have a prediction - in the next couple of years Deliberation Behind Closed Doors will rise fast in the Social Science Citation Index because no-one in the field working on publicity and deliberative democratic theory can ignore this work. Ass. Prof. Simone Chambers, University of Toronto