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Information Technology in a Democracy / Alan F. Westin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Harvard Studies in Technology and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy.
- Democratie.
- Demokratie.
- Démocratie.
- Informatietechnologie.
- Information technology.
- Information.
- Management information systems.
- Openbaar bestuur.
- Öffentliche Verwaltung.
- Public records.
- Systèmes d'information de gestion.
- Public administration--Data processing.
- Public records--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Democracy.
- Management information systems.
- Public administration--Data processing.
- Public records--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (509 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Prologue: Of Technological Visions and Democratic Politics / Westin, Alan F.
- I. Descriptions of the Developing Systems by Their Advocates
- Introduction
- A. The Databank and Information Systems Route
- Detroit's Social Data Bank / Black, Harold / Shaw, Edward
- The "Logic" Information System
- The New York State Identification and Intelligence System / Gallati, Robert R. J.
- The United Planning Organization's Social Databank / Brooks, Edward Μ.
- B. The Management Science Route
- PPB and Vietnam / Enthoven, Alain
- PPB in New York State / Alesch, Daniel J.
- PPB in Cities / Mushkin, Selma
- Program Budgeting for the State Department / Diebold, John
- Systems Analysis in East Lansing / Conlisk, G. Michael
- Systems Analysis in the Pentagon / Enthoven, Alain
- Putting Operations Research to Work / Morse, Philip Μ.
- The Systems Approach to Social Problems / Ramo, Simon
- Congress Needs the Systems Approach / Chartrand, Robert L.
- System Development Corporation
- TRW (Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge) Systems
- The RAND Projects in New York City / Genensky, S. Μ.
- California Hires the Aerospace Companies / Brown, Edmund
- II. "Control Technology" in a Democracy: The Broad Socio-Political Debate
- How Technology Will Shape the Future / Mesthene, Emmanuel G.
- Moving into a Technetronic Society / Brzezinski, Zbigniew
- The Great Refusal of Technetronic Society / Mendel, Arthur P.
- Technology's Uninvited Guests / Strausz-Hupé, Robert
- Policy Problems of a Data-Rich Civilization / Lasswell, Harold D.
- Humanizing a Technological Society / Fromm, Erich
- The Need for New Constitutional Controls / Ferry, W. Η.
- Computing Power in Real Time / Gallagher, Cornelius Ε.
- A Public Philosophy for Real Time Information Systems / Sackman, Harold
- III. The Information Function in Organizational Decision-Making
- Information Systems and Social Knowledge / Pool, Ithiel De Sola / Mcintosh, Stuart / Griffel, David
- A Bull's Eye View of Information Systems / Oettinger, Anthony G.
- Management Misinformation Systems / Ackoff, Russell
- Distinguishing Statistical and Intelligence Systems / Dunn, Edgar
- The Road from Information to Knowledge / Wilensky, Harold L.
- IV. Emerging Information Systems: The Policy Debates
- A. Databanks
- Democratic Participation and Technological Planning / Michael, Donald Ν.
- Civil Liberties Issues in Public Databanks / Westin, Alan F.
- The Political Payoffs in Urban Information Systems / Downs, Anthony
- Why There Are No Urban Information Systems Yet / Dial, Oliver Ε.
- A Model for Urban Information Systems / Kraemer, Kenneth L.
- Trends and Directions for Urban Information Systems / Weiner, Myron Ε.
- B. Management Science Techniques
- The New Systems Budgeting / Gross, Bertram Μ.
- PPB for Police Forces
- PPB and the Complexities of Foreign Affairs / Schelling, Thomas
- Two-and-a-Half Cheers for Systems Analysis / Schlesinger, James
- When California System-Analyzed the Welfare Problem / Hoos, Ida R.
- Systems of Power and the Power of Systems / Boguslaw, Robert
- Defense Systems Approaches in the Civil Sector
- Systems Experts: Foxes in the Henhouse / Hoos, Ida R.
- The Cities Can't Pay for Aerospace Work / Mitchel, William Η.
- Systems Analysis and the Liberal Establishment / Conrad, Thomas Μ.
- Bibliography Index
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-43697-0
- OCLC:
- 1013950228
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