Abstract

GARCIA BOSSIO, María Pilar. State secrecy: The limits of democracy. Apunt. investig. CECYP [online]. 2017, n.29, pp.156-165. ISSN 1851-9814.

Secrecy is a constituent part of any power, even that which stands as demo-cratic and therefore should be visible, governed by public acts monitored by public opinion. We can arrive to this conclusion reading Democracy and secrecy of Norberto Bobbio, work in which compiles a series of author's writings between 1980 and 1990, whose main concern is the place of the secret in the constitution of the visible power of the democratic State. The aim is to trace some elements of Bobbio's argument that allow us to think about the role of secrecy in the States working, particularly democra-tic states, the invisible power spaces that are enabled, the paradoxes that their presence, and the possibilities it opens or closes. We intend to retake a reading that, by distant in his writing is still current, inviting us to question key situations of our present.

Keywords : Secrecy; State; democracy.

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