Accountability of the security and intelligence services

Citation

Kippin S (2018) Accountability of the security and intelligence services. In: Dunleavy P, Park A & Taylor R (eds.) The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit. London: LSE Press, pp. 173-181. https://doi.org/10.31389/book1.l

Abstract
Sean Kippin and the Democratic Audit team assess the ways in which the UK’s four main security services are scrutinised, to ensure that they are operating legally and in the public interest. For matters that must be kept secret, ‘compromise’ forms of scrutiny have now been developed in Parliament. But how effectively or independently do they work?

People

Dr Sean Kippin

Lecturer in Public Policy, Politics