Official Secrecy and Informal Communication in Congressional-Bureaucratic Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4289285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leon V Sigal (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-92 |
| Publication date | 1975-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2148699 |
| OpenAlex | W2324709739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
These incidents are somewhat puzzling. Why Senator Fulbright would choose not to make a political issue out of the information contained in the Pentagon papers until after Ellsberg had leaked them to the press, and why Henry Kissinger would meet with Foreign Relations Committee members while keeping secret the fact that he had done so, have a common strand of explanation. They are both instances of informal communication between the executive branch and Congress about matters which are officially secret. How such exchanges of information take place often affects how those who receive the information can exploit
Bureaucracy · Political science · Politics · Secrecy · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2013 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |