Accelerating Democracy : : Transforming Governance Through Technology / / John O. McGinnis.
Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter one. The Ever Expanding Domain of Computation
- Chapter two. Democracy, Consequences, and Social Knowledge
- Chapter three. Experimenting with Democracy
- Chapter four. Unleashing Prediction Markets
- Chapter five. Distributing Information through Dispersed Media and Campaigns
- Chapter six. Accelerating AI
- Chapter seven. Regulation in an Age of Technological Acceleration
- Chapter eight. Bias and Democracy
- Chapter nine. De-biasing Democracy
- Conclusion. The Past and Future of Information Politics
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index