Resumen de Formen und Funktionen des exekutiven Geheimnisschutzes
Transparency is still all the rage in public law. In most constitutional democracies, all executive decision-making must be “visible and understandable”, as the German Federal Constitutional Court has put it. At the same time, however, few people doubt that the executive branch must protect vital or dangerous information in certain cases. But how exactly can executive secrecy be justified in constitutional terms? And how can we make sure that executive secrecy does not undermine our pursuit of a visible state? This article takes up the challenge to develop a theory, which integrates executive secrecy into the grammar of democratic constitutionalism.
