Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/31256 [Downloaded 2020/09/15 at 16:33:44 ] "Transparence et démocratie : analyse d'un principe de gouvernement" Pitseys, John ABSTRACT The PhD. I completed in political philosophy asks the following question: to what extent transparency is desirable for democracy? To what extent the conditions of a desirable transparency can help us to define a legitimate political regime? The thesis begins with the most common meaning given to political transparency: political publicity. Leaning on the discourse of the European New Public Governance, I tried to analyze the possible objects and functions of publicity. I took up then the tensions and limits of the concept. For some, secrecy is preferable to publicity when it responds to a state of political exception or when it favors the capacity of the government to take a rational decision. For others, publicity would not meet the conditions of democracy and particularly the expression of the sovereign will. Both lines are riddled with inconsistencies mostly due to the limited theories upon which they are based, namely Reason of State, the deliberative model, and the ideal of political similarity. The work then examines European Public governance discourse and it attempts to surpass these theories through the notion of inclusive transparency, where transparency relies on the participation of all actors in the decision-making process including the recursive integration of different phases and spaces in political decision-making. This model of transparency develops a « deliberative and reflexive » discussion which tries to bridge the modern ideal of rationality with the recognition of a pluralist and dynamic social space. I analyzed the characteristics of the deliberat... CITE THIS VERSION Pitseys, John. Transparence et démocratie : analyse d'un principe de gouvernement. Prom. : Pourtois, Hervé http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/31256 Le dépôt institutionnel DIAL est destiné au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques émanant des membres de l'UCLouvain. Toute utilisation de ce document à des fins lucratives ou commerciales est strictement interdite. L'utilisateur s'engage à respecter les droits d'auteur liés à ce document, principalement le droit à l'intégrité de l'œuvre et le droit à la paternité. La politique complète de copyright est disponible sur la page Copyright policy DIAL is an institutional repository for the deposit and dissemination of scientific documents from UCLouvain members. Usage of this document for profit or commercial purposes is stricly prohibited. User agrees to respect copyright about this document, mainly text integrity and source mention. Full content of copyright policy is available at Copyright policy