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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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McGinnis John O. <1957->  
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013
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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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Shaw Randy <1956->  
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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Smelser Neil J  
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
Holert Tom  
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910788999803321
McCloskey Patrick  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
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