Mark Fenster is the Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Tort Professor at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. He is the author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (1999, 2008).

"No one has done more than Mark Fenster to challenge the premises and policies of the open government movement. This book will be a foundational text in critical transparency studies."—David Pozen, Columbia Law School "The Transparency Fix is an essential guide to the often heated debate over secrecy in American government. Mark Fenster explores the practical limits to keeping secrets in contemporary government and questions whether openness can really prevent abuses of power. A thoughtful, pragmatic analysis of an enduring problem."—Alasdair Roberts, University of Missouri

• Introduction: The Transparent State We Want But Can't Have1. Liberating the Family Jewels: "Free" Information and "Open" Government in the Post-War Legal Imaginary2. Supplementing the Transparency Fix: Innovations in the Wake of Law's Inadequacies3. Transparency's Limits: Balancing the Open and Secret State4. The Uncontrollable State5. The Impossible Archive of Government Information6. Disclosure's Effects?7. The Implausibility of Information Control8. The Disappointments of MegaleaksConclusion: The West Wing, the West Wing, and Abandoning the Informational Fix

Mark Fenster is the Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Tort Professor at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. He is the author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (1999, 2008).

"No one has done more than Mark Fenster to challenge the premises and policies of the open government movement. This book will be a foundational text in critical transparency studies."—David Pozen, Columbia Law School "The Transparency Fix is an essential guide to the often heated debate over secrecy in American government. Mark Fenster explores the practical limits to keeping secrets in contemporary government and questions whether openness can really prevent abuses of power. A thoughtful, pragmatic analysis of an enduring problem."—Alasdair Roberts, University of Missouri

• Introduction: The Transparent State We Want But Can't Have1. Liberating the Family Jewels: "Free" Information and "Open" Government in the Post-War Legal Imaginary2. Supplementing the Transparency Fix: Innovations in the Wake of Law's Inadequacies3. Transparency's Limits: Balancing the Open and Secret State4. The Uncontrollable State5. The Impossible Archive of Government Information6. Disclosure's Effects?7. The Implausibility of Information Control8. The Disappointments of MegaleaksConclusion: The West Wing, the West Wing, and Abandoning the Informational Fix

Mark Fenster is the Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Tort Professor at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. He is the author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (1999, 2008).

"No one has done more than Mark Fenster to challenge the premises and policies of the open government movement. This book will be a foundational text in critical transparency studies."—David Pozen, Columbia Law School "The Transparency Fix is an essential guide to the often heated debate over secrecy in American government. Mark Fenster explores the practical limits to keeping secrets in contemporary government and questions whether openness can really prevent abuses of power. A thoughtful, pragmatic analysis of an enduring problem."—Alasdair Roberts, University of Missouri

• Introduction: The Transparent State We Want But Can't Have1. Liberating the Family Jewels: "Free" Information and "Open" Government in the Post-War Legal Imaginary2. Supplementing the Transparency Fix: Innovations in the Wake of Law's Inadequacies3. Transparency's Limits: Balancing the Open and Secret State4. The Uncontrollable State5. The Impossible Archive of Government Information6. Disclosure's Effects?7. The Implausibility of Information Control8. The Disappointments of MegaleaksConclusion: The West Wing, the West Wing, and Abandoning the Informational Fix