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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779330203321 |
McGinnis John O. <1957->
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 | ||
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Accelerating democracy : 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824542503321 |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 | ||
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Better boardrooms : repairing corporate governance for the 21st century / / Patricia Meredith |
Autore | Meredith Patricia <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) : 5 figures |
Disciplina | 332.106840971 |
Soggetto topico |
Banks and banking - Canada
Corporate governance - Canada Bank directors - Canada |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency costs
boards corporate governance disruptive change exit strategies inertia information age sustainability transformative change |
ISBN |
9781442621374
9781442621381 |
Classificazione | cci1icc |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Cover -- ; Title Page -- ; Copyright Page -- ; Dedication Page -- ; Contents -- ; Preface: What Got Me Started ... -- ; 1. CIBC: A Fork in the Road -- ; 2. A Broken System -- ; 3. When Seeing Is Not Believing -- ; 4. Confronting Reality -- ; 5. What Boards Should Do, but Likely Won't -- ; 6. Barbarians at the Gates -- ; 7. Transformation: Easier Said Than Done -- ; 8. The Information Age Changes Everything -- ; 9. A New Governance Model -- ; Acknowledgments -- ; Appendix A: Timeline for GE Post Trian Partners Presentation -- ; Appendix B: Selected History of the Thomson Corporation -- ; Notes -- ; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794314103321 |
Meredith Patricia <1955->
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] | ||
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Better boardrooms : repairing corporate governance for the 21st century / / Patricia Meredith |
Autore | Meredith Patricia <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) : 5 figures |
Disciplina | 332.106840971 |
Soggetto topico |
Banks and banking - Canada
Corporate governance - Canada Bank directors - Canada |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency costs
boards corporate governance disruptive change exit strategies inertia information age sustainability transformative change |
ISBN |
9781442621374
9781442621381 |
Classificazione | cci1icc |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Cover -- ; Title Page -- ; Copyright Page -- ; Dedication Page -- ; Contents -- ; Preface: What Got Me Started ... -- ; 1. CIBC: A Fork in the Road -- ; 2. A Broken System -- ; 3. When Seeing Is Not Believing -- ; 4. Confronting Reality -- ; 5. What Boards Should Do, but Likely Won't -- ; 6. Barbarians at the Gates -- ; 7. Transformation: Easier Said Than Done -- ; 8. The Information Age Changes Everything -- ; 9. A New Governance Model -- ; Acknowledgments -- ; Appendix A: Timeline for GE Post Trian Partners Presentation -- ; Appendix B: Selected History of the Thomson Corporation -- ; Notes -- ; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815384003321 |
Meredith Patricia <1955->
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] | ||
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The Googlization of everything [[electronic resource] ] : (and why we should worry) / / Siva Vaidhyanathan |
Autore | Vaidhyanathan Siva |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.7/6102504 |
Soggetto topico |
Internet industry - Social aspects
Internet - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
algorithms
china critical thinking cyber data mining data digital archive digital culture digital information digital sociology digital world digitization google book search information age information technology intellectual property internet safety internet media personal information politics popular culture privacy private marketing science and ethics science social issues social media technology and society technology ethics technology |
ISBN |
1-283-27781-6
9786613277817 0-520-94869-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the gospel of Google -- "Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web -- Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology -- The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism -- The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere -- The Googlization of the library: the future of books -- The Googlization of memory: filters and the fracturing of knowledge -- Conclusion: the human knowledge project. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791560703321 |
Vaidhyanathan Siva
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
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The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry) / / Siva Vaidhyanathan |
Autore | Vaidhyanathan Siva |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.7/6102504 |
Soggetto topico |
Internet industry - Social aspects
Internet - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
algorithms
china critical thinking cyber data mining data digital archive digital culture digital information digital sociology digital world digitization google book search information age information technology intellectual property internet safety internet media personal information politics popular culture privacy private marketing science and ethics science social issues social media technology and society technology ethics technology |
ISBN |
1-283-27781-6
9786613277817 0-520-94869-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the gospel of Google -- "Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web -- Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology -- The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism -- The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere -- The Googlization of the library: the future of books -- The Googlization of memory: filters and the fracturing of knowledge -- Conclusion: the human knowledge project. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822097203321 |
Vaidhyanathan Siva
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
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Rich democracies [[electronic resource] ] : political economy, public policy, and performance / / Harold L. Wilensky |
Autore | Wilensky Harold L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (925 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Welfare state
Comparative government |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
agriculture american government american history britain career case study churches democracy environmental globalization government high tech industry information age israel japan labor mass media modern society modern world performance political economy political parties politics post industrial poverty profession public policy research scholarly sociology us history welfare state western europe |
ISBN |
9786612759031
1-282-75903-5 1-59734-873-2 0-520-92833-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. CONVERGENCE THEORY -- 2. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 3. MASS SOCIETY, PARTICIPATION, AND THE MASS MEDIA -- 4. THEORIES OF THE POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- 5. THE WELFARE STATE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE -- 6. SECTOR SPENDING AND PROGRAM EMPHASIS -- 7. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, PARTY IDEOLOGY, AND FAMILY POLICY: CONTRASTING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO A COMMON PROBLEM -- 8. THE AMERICAN WELFARE MESS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 9. BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY AND BLOAT -- 10. TAX-WELFARE BACKLASH: HOW TO TAX, SPEND, AND YET KEEP COOL -- 11. ARE POLITICAL PARTIES DECLINING? AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL VARIATION IN DEALIGNMENT -- 12. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, SPENDING, TAXING, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- 13. THE GREAT AMERICAN JOB MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 14. RISK AND SAFETY: AMERICAN MAYHEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 15. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, REGULATORY REGIMES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 16. HEALTH PERFORMANCE: AFFLUENCE, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC POLICY AS SOURCES OF REAL HEALTH -- 17. GLOBALIZATION: DOES IT SUBVERT JOB SECURITY, LABOR STANDARDS, AND THE WELFARE STATE? -- 18. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: METHODS -- APPENDIX B: CONCEPTS AND MEASURES OF LEFT AND CATHOLIC PARTY POWER -- APPENDIX C: SOCIAL SPENDING, GNP, TAX EXPENDITURES, AND HOUSING EXPENDITURES -- APPENDIX D: SECTOR SPENDING CORRELATIONS -- APPENDIX E: FAMILY POLICY -- APPENDIX F: ESTIMATING RELIANCE ON MEANS TESTING -- APPENDIX G: MEASURES OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- APPENDIX H: MEASURES OF CENTRAL BANK AUTONOMY -- APPENDIX I: MAYHEM INDEX, MOBILITY-MERITOCRACY INDEX, AND MINORITY-GROUP CLEAVAGES -- APPENDIX J: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782933903321 |
Wilensky Harold L
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Rich democracies : political economy, public policy, and performance / / Harold L. Wilensky |
Autore | Wilensky Harold L |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (925 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Welfare state
Comparative government |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
agriculture american government american history britain career case study churches democracy environmental globalization government high tech industry information age israel japan labor mass media modern society modern world performance political economy political parties politics post industrial poverty profession public policy research scholarly sociology us history welfare state western europe |
ISBN |
9786612759031
1-282-75903-5 1-59734-873-2 0-520-92833-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. CONVERGENCE THEORY -- 2. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 3. MASS SOCIETY, PARTICIPATION, AND THE MASS MEDIA -- 4. THEORIES OF THE POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- 5. THE WELFARE STATE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE -- 6. SECTOR SPENDING AND PROGRAM EMPHASIS -- 7. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, PARTY IDEOLOGY, AND FAMILY POLICY: CONTRASTING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO A COMMON PROBLEM -- 8. THE AMERICAN WELFARE MESS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 9. BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY AND BLOAT -- 10. TAX-WELFARE BACKLASH: HOW TO TAX, SPEND, AND YET KEEP COOL -- 11. ARE POLITICAL PARTIES DECLINING? AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL VARIATION IN DEALIGNMENT -- 12. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, SPENDING, TAXING, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- 13. THE GREAT AMERICAN JOB MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 14. RISK AND SAFETY: AMERICAN MAYHEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 15. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, REGULATORY REGIMES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 16. HEALTH PERFORMANCE: AFFLUENCE, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC POLICY AS SOURCES OF REAL HEALTH -- 17. GLOBALIZATION: DOES IT SUBVERT JOB SECURITY, LABOR STANDARDS, AND THE WELFARE STATE? -- 18. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: METHODS -- APPENDIX B: CONCEPTS AND MEASURES OF LEFT AND CATHOLIC PARTY POWER -- APPENDIX C: SOCIAL SPENDING, GNP, TAX EXPENDITURES, AND HOUSING EXPENDITURES -- APPENDIX D: SECTOR SPENDING CORRELATIONS -- APPENDIX E: FAMILY POLICY -- APPENDIX F: ESTIMATING RELIANCE ON MEANS TESTING -- APPENDIX G: MEASURES OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- APPENDIX H: MEASURES OF CENTRAL BANK AUTONOMY -- APPENDIX I: MAYHEM INDEX, MOBILITY-MERITOCRACY INDEX, AND MINORITY-GROUP CLEAVAGES -- APPENDIX J: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812851703321 |
Wilensky Harold L
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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