Public versus private status of records and archives and analysis of the implications for their access. An example demonstrating top political representatives of political power in the United States, France and Germany

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70979391%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000004" target="_blank" >RIV/70979391:_____/21:N0000004 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-021-09375-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-021-09375-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S10502-021-09375-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/S10502-021-09375-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Public versus private status of records and archives and analysis of the implications for their access. An example demonstrating top political representatives of political power in the United States, France and Germany

Original language description

The basic prerequisite for records, archives and information to be open to the public one day is that their own status must be public. Selected examples from the United States, France and Germany demonstrate a trend in the development of the relation-ship of advanced democratic societies to records of mostly official origin, especially the top representatives of public political power (presidents, government ministers and secretaries, chancellors). Civil society increasingly shows an interest in access to records that testify to the actions of their top representatives. States are gradually enforcing the interpretation of “their” records as public and not private. However, these representatives still demonstrate a strong feeling that society is not quite entitled to these records. The USA, France and Germany all deal with this matter in different ways. A top politician, especially in the performance of his role or entrusted office, is not a private citizen. Therefore, there should be much stricter and more thorough public scrutiny, and a requirement for transparency. Controversial records, perceived to be on the border between public and private status, should always be treated as public. Top political and public officials have much less “right to be forgotten” than ordinary citizens and thus it is their “duty to be remembered”.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/VI20192022125" target="_blank" >VI20192022125: Analysis of personal data processing in the archives</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archival Science

ISSN

1389-0166

e-ISSN

1573-7500

Volume of the periodical

neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2021-11-02

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

nestrankovano

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85118451890