Autore	McGinnis John O. <1957->
Edizione	[Core Textbook]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina	320.014
Soggetto topico	Information technology - Political aspects Technological innovations - Political aspects Democracy Democratization
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-86413-4 1-4008-4545-9
Classificazione	ZG 8645
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- 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
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , [2012]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (61 p.)
Disciplina	303.66
Soggetto topico	Peace-building, American - Environmental aspects Information technology - Political aspects Agriculture - Research - Sociological aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-309-25968-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Conflict in Rural Settings""; ""3 Extension Services in Fragile Societies""; ""4 Capacity Building and Training""; ""5 Organizational Change and Institution Building""; ""6 Technological Infrastructure""; ""7 Final Observations""; ""Appendix A: Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Attendees""
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Autore	Rabaiah Abdelbaset
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Brussels, Belgium : , : VUBPress, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (231 p.)
Disciplina	352.3802854678
Altri autori (Persone)	VandijckEddy MusaFarouk
Soggetto topico	Internet in public administration Information technology - Political aspects Electronic government information
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Front ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""CHAPTER 0:: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""CHAPTER 1:: RESEARCH ISSUES""; ""CHAPTER 2:: CHALLENGES FACING E--GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT""; ""CHAPTER 3:: LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""CHAPTER 4:: STRUCTURING THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OF E-- GOVERNMENT""; ""CHAPTER 5:: THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OF E--GOVERNMENT""; ""CHAPTER 6:: HOW TO USE THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OF E-- GOVERNMENT""; ""CHAPTER 7:: THE UNDERLYING TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE:: THE FEDERATED MODEL OF E--GOVERNMENT"" ""CHAPTER 8:: PARTICULAR OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES""""CHAPTER 9:: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""
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Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (300 pages)
Disciplina	321.8
Collana	Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series
Soggetto topico	Democracy Information technology - Political aspects Political sociology
ISBN	3-031-41397-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I Trust, Distrust and Democracy -- 2 The Trust in Science Revisited: Social-Epistemic Challenges in Democratic and Digital Societies -- The Comeback of Trust? -- No Knowledge Without Epistemic Trust -- Heuristics for Epistemic Trust -- The Matrix of Epistemic Trust -- The Dissolution of Epistemic Trust -- Digital Viruses of Epistemic Mistrust -- The Digital Battle for Epistemic Trust -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Suspicious Minds: Towards a Typology of Political Distrust -- On the Importance of Analysing Political Distrust -- Political and Social Trust and the Story of the Crisis of Democracy -- Distrust in Political Theory -- Defining Political Distrust -- The Typology of a Suspicious Citizen -- Critical Research Agenda -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Distrust and Democracy -- Modern Democracy -- The Problem of Opposition in Democratic Theory -- Agonistic Theory of Democracy as a Point of Comparison -- Opposition as an Internal Controller -- Hegel and the Dialectics Between the Self and the 'Other' -- Hegel, Democracy, and Distrust -- Conclusion: Distrust as the Basis for Trust -- References -- Part II Authoritarianism and Democracy -- 5 Whose Populism? What Democracy? On the Conceptual and Normative Connections of Populism and Democracy -- Populism and Democracy-Yea or Nay? -- Decision-making and Politicking -- A Thin Account of Democracy -- Normative Views of Democracy -- Liberal Democracy -- Republican Deliberation -- Democracy as a Way of Life -- Analysis: Populism and Democracy -- Conclusion: What is Politics Anyway? -- References -- 6 Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of Populism -- The Puzzle of Competitive Authoritarianism -- Charisma and Acclamation -- Democratic Community: From Consent to Identity. Democratic Political Theology? -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Illiberal Challenge -- Democracy Under Threat -- Defining Democracy -- Illiberal Democracy or Authoritarianism? -- Authoritarian Strategies -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 The Grey Areas of Democracy: Indifference and the Erosion of Democratic Principles from Within -- Towards the Rule of Man? -- The Rule of Law and Politics of Indifference -- The Grey Areas of Democracy -- Examples of Indifference: United States and Hungary -- The Politicization of the Judicial Nominations in the United States -- Structural Features of Political Polarization in the United States -- Indifference and COVID-19 in Hungary -- Hungary's Road to Soft-Authoritarianism -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Constitutional Thought, Democracy and Crisis Government -- Why Crisis Government? -- The Roman Dictatorship -- Dictatorship in the Republican Tradition -- Prerogative of the Executive -- Prerogative and the Constitution -- Constant, Schmitt, and the Dangers of Usurpation -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Democracy-The Will of the People? -- 10 From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures -- Democracy of What? -- The Minimal Politics of 'The People' -- Opinions in the Electorate and Parliament -- Parliamentary Proceduralism -- The Politics of Debate -- Parliamentarization of Elections -- Conclusion: Proceduralization as De-polarization -- References -- 11 Agenda Problem in Referendum Democracy -- The Problem of Representation -- The Competence Argument -- Problems with the Competence Argument -- Forms of Representation -- The Agenda Problem(s) -- The Problem of Separability -- The Problem in Real Life -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 On the Concept and Practice of Democracy in Late-Modern Mass Conditions: An Oakeshottian Update. The Vague Concept of Democracy -- Oakeshott and Crick on Democracy and Mass Democracy -- Sheldon S. Wolin on the Lack of Democratic Ethos: Managed Democracy and Inverted Totalitarianism -- On Freedom, Democracy, and Information Technology: The Dark Side -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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