State Capacity of Secret Surveillance

ISSP network members Thomas K. Duncan and Nathan P. Goodman explore the balance between the state and civil society, in the context of the surveillance state, that has arisen in the 20th and 21st century. Using the state capacity-civil society tradeoff model, they argue that this modeling technique leaves out the nuances of individual action within a collective setting by treating each as a relative black box.

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