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.)

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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