Accelerating democracy [[electronic resource] ] : transforming governance through technology / / John O. McGinnis
| Accelerating democracy [[electronic resource] ] : transforming governance through technology / / John O. McGinnis |
| 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 non controllato |
Internet
administrative government artificial intelligence bias collective decision making computational advances computer cultural cognition democracy dispersed media earmarks education reform elections empirical analysis empiricism federalism friendly AI governance government data information age information costs information markets information technology innate majoritarian bias knowledge falsification machine intelligence majority rule modern technology political bias political campaigns political culture political decision making political information political life political prediction markets politics public action problem public policy regulation representation social governance social knowledge social planning social policy social science social-scientific knowledge special interests status quo technocracy technological acceleration technological change term limits |
| 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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The activist's handbook [[electronic resource] ] : winning social change in the 21st century / / Randy Shaw
| The activist's handbook [[electronic resource] ] : winning social change in the 21st century / / Randy Shaw |
| Autore | Shaw Randy <1956-> |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.480973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social action - United States
Community organization - United States Political activists - United States Political participation - United States Social reformers - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
activism
anthropology climate change diverse coalitions education reform electoral process engaging fighting government and governing grassroots support homelessness human condition immigrant rights liberal politics marriage equality occupy wall street occupy organising political philosophy political science political politics positive change protests revolt social change social issues social justice social media social sciences sociology student activism urban issues |
| ISBN |
9780520956995
0520956990 9780520274051 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Don't Respond, Strategize -- 2. Elected Officials: Inspiring Fear and Loathing -- 3. Coalition Activism: Rounding Up the Unusual Suspects -- 4. Ballot Initiatives: The Rules of the Game -- 5. The Media: Winning More Than Coverage -- 6. The Internet and Social Media: Maximizing the Power of Online Activism -- 7. Direct Action: Acting Up, Sitting In, Taking to the Streets -- 8. Lawyers: Allies or Obstacles to Social Change? -- 9. Student Activists Lead the Way -- Conclusion: New Activism for the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | The activist's handbook : winning social change in the twenty-first century |
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2013] | ||
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Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser
| Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser |
| Autore | Smelser Neil J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
| Disciplina | 378.73 |
| Collana | The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society |
| Soggetto topico |
Universities and colleges - United States
Universities and colleges - Administration - United States Educational change - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academic administration
academic community academic department academic disciplines academic freedom academic stratification academic accountability clark kerr complex structures contemporary trends education history education policy education reform education engaging higher ed leadership higher education history part time faculty political constituencies public support structural accretion teachers and faculty theory of change universities |
| ISBN | 0-520-95525-0 |
| Classificazione | HIS036000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Dynamics of American Universities -- Apologia -- What Kind of Creature is Higher Education? -- Functions -- The Problematic Status of "Functions" -- Moral Embeddedness -- Structural Changes Accompanying Growth -- Increasing the Size of Units -- Segmentation of Units -- Differentiation -- Proliferation -- Coordination -- A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion -- A Historical Sketch of the Process -- The Discipline-based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So -- Frail -- The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments -- Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion -- Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern -- Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion -- The Structuring of Faculty Activities -- Implications for Academic Community -- Chapter 2: The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability -- Of Pythons and Goats -- Economic Fluctuations -- Competitors for Resources -- Relevance to Accretion -- Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies -- Internal Constituencies -- External Constituencies -- Accretion, Revenues, and Costs -- Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics -- Management as Science and Art -- Administration as Threat to Academic Culture -- Administration as Parkinsonian -- The Structural Alternative -- Implications for Shared Governance -- Accretion and Academic Stratification -- Institutional Prestige -- Multicampus Systems and Stratification -- Prestige Among Disciplines -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions -- An Unprecedented Perfect Storm -- Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance -- General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs -- Accountability, Governance, and Support. -- The Many Faces of Commercialization -- The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its -- Consequences -- Consumerism -- Economizing as a Way of Life -- University-Industry Relations -- On-line Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-profits -- Non-tenured and Part-time Faculty -- Implications for Tenure -- Excursus on Academic Freedom -- Coda -- References. |
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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Politics of learning, politics of space : architecture and the education shock of the 1960s and 1970s / / Tom Holert
| Politics of learning, politics of space : architecture and the education shock of the 1960s and 1970s / / Tom Holert |
| Autore | Holert Tom |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina | 727 |
| Soggetto topico |
School buildings - Political aspects
School buildings - Social aspects School buildings - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Architecture
education reform pedagogy |
| ISBN | 3-11-072604-1 |
| Classificazione | ZH 6140 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Open Plan and Limited Access: The Embattled Classrooms of the 1960s and 1970s -- School's In/Out: OSZ Wedding, Berlin, or Learning from a Resilient Learning Environment -- Educationalize and Fail: The 1967 Rice Design Fete and the Blind Spots of Transgressive Planning -- Spaces of the Learning Self: Interiority and Instructional Design, ca. 1969 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554499203321 |
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| Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , [2021] | ||
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The street stops here [[electronic resource] ] : a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem / / Patrick J. McCloskey ; foreword by Samuel G. Freedman
| The street stops here [[electronic resource] ] : a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem / / Patrick J. McCloskey ; foreword by Samuel G. Freedman |
| Autore | McCloskey Patrick |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (490 p.) |
| Disciplina | 371.071/27471 |
| Collana | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Catholic high schools - New York (State) - New York
African Americans - Education (Secondary) - New York (State) - New York Minorities - Education (Secondary) - New York (State) - New York |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academics
african american education african american men american education system catholic education catholic schools catholicism central harlem christianity education reform education harlem high school poor students poverty public mandate public policy religious education rice high school school setting school social expectations students and schools students and teachers united states of america urban areas urban public school urban school districts welfare working class students |
| ISBN |
1-282-77237-6
9786612772375 0-520-94208-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-one -- Chapter Twenty-two -- Chapter Twenty-three -- Chapter Twenty-four -- Chapter Twenty-five -- Chapter Twenty-six -- Chapter Twenty-seven -- Chapter Twenty-eight -- Chapter Twenty-nine -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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