1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459591203321

Autore

Mason Jim

Titolo

No holding back [[electronic resource] ] : the 1980 John B. Anderson presidential campaign / / Jim Mason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : University Press of America, 2011

ISBN

1-283-09887-3

9786613098870

0-7618-5227-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1154 p.)

Disciplina

324.973/0926

324.9730926

Soggetti

Political campaigns - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Chapter One; Introduction; "A Different Approach"; Chapter Two; The Anderson Journey: 1901 to March 1978; "Feelings of Isolation and Frustration"; Chapter Three; The Jimmy Carter Presidency: from January 1977 to December 1979; "A Good and Well-Intentioned Man Who Was in Over His Head"; Chapter Four; September 1977 to May 1979; "A Kind of an Anti-Candidate"; Chapter Five; May to December 1979; "An Untraditional Message"; Chapter Six; January to March 1980; "Out of Left Field"; Chapter Seven; March to April 1980:; "A Bright New Force in American Politics"; Chapter Eight

April to June 1980"A Co-Equal Third Contender"; Chapter Nine; June to August 1980; "Too Careful, Too Concerned with Winning, Too Conventional"; Chapter Ten; September to November 1980; "Delusions and False Hopes"; Chapter Eleven; Epilogue; "A Path Fraught with Obstacles"; Notes; Anderson Campaign Timeline; Interviewees

Sommario/riassunto

In 1980, John Anderson ran what experts initially considered a quixotic race for the Republican presidential nomination before switching to run as an independent. He ran a unique campaign and won unprecedented support before it eventually fell apart. No Holding Back tells the story of this riveting American political melodrama.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456822103321

Autore

Miller John H (John Howard), <1959->

Titolo

Complex adaptive systems [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to computational models of social life / / John H. Miller and Scott E. Page

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-45811-6

1-282-93635-2

9786612458118

9786612936357

1-4008-3552-6

0-691-12702-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Princeton studies in complexity

Classificazione

70.03

Altri autori (Persone)

PageScott E

Disciplina

300.1/513

Soggetti

Social systems - Mathematical models

Social sciences - Mathematical models

Sociale relaties

Computermodellen

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. INTRODUCTION. Introduction -- Complexity in social worlds -- pt. 2. PRELIMINARIES. Modeling -- On emergence -- pt. 3. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. Computation as theory -- Why agent-based objects? -- pt. 4. MODELS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS. A basic framework -- Complex adaptive social systems in one dimension -- Social dynamics -- Evolving automata -- Some fundamentals of organizational decision making -- pt. 5. CONCLUSIONS. Social science in between -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. A. An open agenda for complex adaptive social systems -- B. Practices for computational modeling.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock



markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex Adaptive Systems focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It provides a detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and feedback. It also demonstrates how complex adaptive systems can be explored using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models of adaptive agents. John Miller and Scott Page show how to combine ideas from economics, political science, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness. They also demonstrate how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.