Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order
Cybersecurity sits at the intersection of public security concerns about critical infrastructure protection and private security concerns around the protection of property rights and civil liberties. Public-private partnerships have been embraced as the best way to meet the challenge of cybersecurit...
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| description | Cybersecurity sits at the intersection of public security concerns about critical infrastructure protection and private security concerns around the protection of property rights and civil liberties. Public-private partnerships have been embraced as the best way to meet the challenge of cybersecurity, enabling cooperation between private and public sectors to meet shared challenges. While the cybersecurity literature has focused on the practical dilemmas of providing a public good, it has been less effective in reflecting on the role of cybersecurity in the broader constitution of political order. Unpacking three accepted conceptual divisions between public and private, state and market, and the political and economic, it is possible to locate how this set of theoretical assumptions shortcut reflection on these larger issues. While public-private partnerships overstep boundaries between public authority and private right, in doing so they reconstitute these divisions at another level in the organization of political economy of liberal democratic societies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2082de0f9ce440e99a38a8135f3e8112022-12-22T02:08:03ZengCogitatioPolitics and Governance2183-24632018-06-016251210.17645/pag.v6i2.1335736Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political OrderDaniel R. McCarthy0School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, AustraliaCybersecurity sits at the intersection of public security concerns about critical infrastructure protection and private security concerns around the protection of property rights and civil liberties. Public-private partnerships have been embraced as the best way to meet the challenge of cybersecurity, enabling cooperation between private and public sectors to meet shared challenges. While the cybersecurity literature has focused on the practical dilemmas of providing a public good, it has been less effective in reflecting on the role of cybersecurity in the broader constitution of political order. Unpacking three accepted conceptual divisions between public and private, state and market, and the political and economic, it is possible to locate how this set of theoretical assumptions shortcut reflection on these larger issues. While public-private partnerships overstep boundaries between public authority and private right, in doing so they reconstitute these divisions at another level in the organization of political economy of liberal democratic societies.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1335capitalismcritical infrastructure protectioncritical theorycybersecuritypublic-private partnerships |
| spellingShingle | Daniel R. McCarthy Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order Politics and Governance capitalism critical infrastructure protection critical theory cybersecurity public-private partnerships |
| title | Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order |
| title_full | Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order |
| title_fullStr | Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order |
| title_full_unstemmed | Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order |
| title_short | Privatizing Political Authority: Cybersecurity, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Reproduction of Liberal Political Order |
| title_sort | privatizing political authority cybersecurity public private partnerships and the reproduction of liberal political order |
| topic | capitalism critical infrastructure protection critical theory cybersecurity public-private partnerships |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1335 |
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