Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics
Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics
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小国的安全：苏格兰、民主、政治
DOI：
10.11647/obp.0078.04
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2017
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Bochel H
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Bochel H
虽然对情报机构的监督可以采取多种形式，但立法监督往往被视为特别重要，因为它有助于确保情报机构独立于行政部门，维护公众信心，并为情报机构及其行动提供合法性。本章借鉴了英国议会对情报和安全机构监督的研究，以考虑新兴国家立法监督的可能经验教训，特别是可能独立的苏格兰。报告表明，与这种发展相关的挑战在很大程度上被忽视，需要认真考虑一些问题，包括情报监督所需的能力和专门知识，以及任何监督机构乃至整个议会的权力。
While oversight of intelligence agencies can take a number of forms, legislative oversight is often seen as particularly important as it can help ensure agencies’ independence from the executive, maintain public confidence and provide legitimacy for the agencies and their actions. This chapter draws on research on oversight of the intelligence and security agencies by the United Kingdom Parliament to consider possible lessons for legislative oversight in emerging states, and in particular, a potentially independent Scotland. It suggests that the challenges associated with such a development have been largely overlooked, and that careful consideration would need to be given to a number of issues, including the capacity and expertise required for intelligence oversight, in addition to the powers of any oversight body and indeed of Parliament as a whole.