Information Technology in a Democracy / / ed. by Alan F. Westin.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ackoff, Russell,; Alesch, Daniel J.,; Black, Harold,; Boguslaw, Robert,; Brooks, Edward Μ.,; Brown, Edmund,; Brzezinski, Zbigniew,; Chartrand, Robert L.,; Conlisk, G. Michael,; Conrad, Thomas Μ.,; Dial, Oliver Ε.,; Diebold, John,; Downs, Anthony,; Dunn, Edgar,; Enthoven, Alain,; Ferry, W. Η.,; Fromm, Erich,; Gallagher, Cornelius Ε.,; Gallati, Robert R. J.,; Genensky, S. Μ.,; Griffel, David,; Gross, Bertram Μ.,; Hoos, Ida R.,; Kraemer, Kenneth L.,; Lasswell, Harold D.,; Mcintosh, Stuart,; Mendel, Arthur P.,; Mesthene, Emmanuel G.,; Michael, Donald Ν.,; Mitchel, William Η.,; Morse, Philip Μ.,; Mushkin, Selma,; Oettinger, Anthony G.,; Pool, Ithiel De Sola,; Ramo, Simon,; Sackman, Harold,; Schelling, Thomas,; Schlesinger, James,; Shaw, Edward,; Strausz-Hupé, Robert,; Weiner, Myron Ε.,; Westin, Alan F.,; Wilensky, Harold L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Westin, Alan F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Studies in Technology and Society ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (499 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Prologue: Of Technological Visions and Democratic Politics --; I. Descriptions of the Developing Systems by Their Advocates --; Introduction --; A. The Databank and Information Systems Route --; Detroit’s Social Data Bank --; The “Logic” Information System --; The New York State Identification and Intelligence System --; The United Planning Organization’s Social Databank --; B. The Management Science Route --; PPB and Vietnam --; PPB in New York State --; PPB in Cities --; Program Budgeting for the State Department --; Systems Analysis in East Lansing --; Systems Analysis in the Pentagon --; Putting Operations Research to Work --; The Systems Approach to Social Problems --; Congress Needs the Systems Approach --; System Development Corporation --; TRW (Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge) Systems --; The RAND Projects in New York City --; California Hires the Aerospace Companies --; II. “Control Technology” in a Democracy: The Broad Socio-Political Debate --; How Technology Will Shape the Future --; Moving into a Technetronic Society --; The Great Refusal of Technetronic Society --; Technology’s Uninvited Guests --; Policy Problems of a Data-Rich Civilization --; Humanizing a Technological Society --; The Need for New Constitutional Controls --; Computing Power in Real Time --; A Public Philosophy for Real Time Information Systems --; III. The Information Function in Organizational Decision-Making --; Information Systems and Social Knowledge --; A Bull’s Eye View of Information Systems --; Management Misinformation Systems --; Distinguishing Statistical and Intelligence Systems --; The Road from Information to Knowledge --; IV. Emerging Information Systems: The Policy Debates --; A. Databanks --; Democratic Participation and Technological Planning --; Civil Liberties Issues in Public Databanks --; The Political Payoffs in Urban Information Systems --; Why There Are No Urban Information Systems Yet --; A Model for Urban Information Systems --; Trends and Directions for Urban Information Systems --; B. Management Science Techniques --; The New Systems Budgeting --; PPB for Police Forces --; PPB and the Complexities of Foreign Affairs --; Two-and-a-Half Cheers for Systems Analysis --; When California System-Analyzed the Welfare Problem --; Systems of Power and the Power of Systems --; Defense Systems Approaches in the Civil Sector --; Systems Experts: Foxes in the Henhouse --; The Cities Can’t Pay for Aerospace Work --; Systems Analysis and the Liberal Establishment --; Bibliography Index --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674436978; 9783110353488; 9783110353495; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674436978
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Alan F. Westin.