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