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Cybernetics and public administration / guest editors: Angela Espinosa and Allenna Leonard.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Kybernetes the international journal of systems & cybernetics ; v. 35, no. 1/2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cybernetics.
- Public administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This e-book is made up of papers from the UK Cybernetics Society Annual Conference - CybCon 2004. The theme was cybernetics and public administration. Special attention is paid to issues related to governance as well as applications to analyse structural problems of governance and to illustrate application of these ideas in particular situations like development programs, national accounts, political stability and others.
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Preface; Introduction; Transcending organisational autism in the UN system response to HIV/AIDS in Africa; Paradoxes of optimisation in public service management; A cybernetic re-evaluation of socio-economic development programs; Improving national accounts; Identity: the paradoxical nature of organizational closure; Momentum and control: a dynamic of democracy; Governance of economic transitions: a case study of Ukraine; A cybernetic diagnosis of Sri Lanka's 2002-2003 peace negotiations; Identity: articulating cybernetics and sociology
- An ABC of British higher educationTowards productive and sustainable forms of interaction in governance; A systems approach to analysing sub-state conflicts; HIV/AIDS: a threat to the viability of the societies it attacks; Contemporary systems and cybernetics; Cybernetics and systems on the web; Awards for Excellence; Communications and forum; News, conferences and technical reports; Announcements; Special announcements
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-50676-8
- 9786610506767
- 1-84544-889-8
- OCLC:
- 68912989
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