Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society
- Submitting institution
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Bangor University / Prifysgol Bangor
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- UoA21_28
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138309388
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This lengthy monograph (288 pages) generates an extended thesis on public accountability of intelligence elites based on: (1) a multidisciplinary systematic review of >27,000 journal articles from international relations, history, media and journalism; (2) a complementary narrative review from intelligence studies to significantly advance theorisation; (3) extensive qualitative empirical analysis of comparative US/UK case studies based on the following multi-perspectival material released across 14 years: >20,000 pages of declassified/leaked intelligence documents; >40 histories/memoirs; >250 news reports; a purposively sampled corpus of social media posts; >100 reports from, and >30 interviews with, civil society actors; and >30 public opinion polls.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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