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Information Technology in a Democracy

  • Edited by: Alan F. Westin
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1971

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    Preface

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    Contents

    vii
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    Prologue: Of Technological Visions and Democratic Politics

    1
    Alan F. Westin
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  • I. Descriptions of the Developing Systems by Their Advocates
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    Introduction

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  • A. The Databank and Information Systems Route
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    Detroit’s Social Data Bank

    30
    Harold Black and Edward Shaw
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    The “Logic” Information System

    35
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    The New York State Identification and Intelligence System

    40
    Robert R. J. Gallati
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    The United Planning Organization’s Social Databank

    47
    Edward Μ. Brooks
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  • B. The Management Science Route
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    PPB and Vietnam

    55
    Alain Enthoven
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    PPB in New York State

    59
    Daniel J. Alesch
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    PPB in Cities

    63
    Selma Mushkin
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    Program Budgeting for the State Department

    69
    John Diebold
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    Systems Analysis in East Lansing

    76
    G. Michael Conlisk
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    Systems Analysis in the Pentagon

    81
    Alain Enthoven
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    Putting Operations Research to Work

    86
    Philip Μ. Morse
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    The Systems Approach to Social Problems

    93
    Simon Ramo
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    Congress Needs the Systems Approach

    99
    Robert L. Chartrand
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    System Development Corporation

    105
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    TRW (Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge) Systems

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    The RAND Projects in New York City

    131
    S. Μ. Genensky
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    California Hires the Aerospace Companies

    139
    Edmund Brown
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  • II. “Control Technology” in a Democracy: The Broad Socio-Political Debate
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    Introduction

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    How Technology Will Shape the Future

    152
    Emmanuel G. Mesthene
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    Moving into a Technetronic Society

    161
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
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    The Great Refusal of Technetronic Society

    168
    Arthur P. Mendel
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    Technology’s Uninvited Guests

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    Robert Strausz-Hupé
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    Policy Problems of a Data-Rich Civilization

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    Harold D. Lasswell
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    Humanizing a Technological Society

    198
    Erich Fromm
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    The Need for New Constitutional Controls

    207
    W. Η. Ferry
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    Computing Power in Real Time

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    Cornelius Ε. Gallagher
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    A Public Philosophy for Real Time Information Systems

    222
    Harold Sackman
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  • III. The Information Function in Organizational Decision-Making
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    Introduction

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    Information Systems and Social Knowledge

    241
    Ithiel De Sola Pool, Stuart Mcintosh and David Griffel
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    A Bull’s Eye View of Information Systems

    250
    Anthony G. Oettinger
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    Management Misinformation Systems

    264
    Russell Ackoff
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    Distinguishing Statistical and Intelligence Systems

    272
    Edgar Dunn
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    The Road from Information to Knowledge

    277
    Harold L. Wilensky
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  • IV. Emerging Information Systems: The Policy Debates
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    Introduction

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  • A. Databanks
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    Democratic Participation and Technological Planning

    291
    Donald Ν. Michael
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    Civil Liberties Issues in Public Databanks

    301
    Alan F. Westin
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    The Political Payoffs in Urban Information Systems

    311
    Anthony Downs
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    Why There Are No Urban Information Systems Yet

    322
    Oliver Ε. Dial
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    A Model for Urban Information Systems

    328
    Kenneth L. Kraemer
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    Trends and Directions for Urban Information Systems

    336
    Myron Ε. Weiner
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  • B. Management Science Techniques
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    The New Systems Budgeting

    357
    Bertram Μ. Gross
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    PPB for Police Forces

    375
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    PPB and the Complexities of Foreign Affairs

    383
    Thomas Schelling
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    Two-and-a-Half Cheers for Systems Analysis

    395
    James Schlesinger
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    When California System-Analyzed the Welfare Problem

    409
    Ida R. Hoos
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    Systems of Power and the Power of Systems

    419
    Robert Boguslaw
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    Defense Systems Approaches in the Civil Sector

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    Systems Experts: Foxes in the Henhouse

    444
    Ida R. Hoos
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    The Cities Can’t Pay for Aerospace Work

    451
    William Η. Mitchel
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    Systems Analysis and the Liberal Establishment

    456
    Thomas Μ. Conrad
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  • Bibliography Index
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    Bibliography

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    Index

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Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1971
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9780674436954
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Reprint 2014
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10
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499
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Harvard Studies in Technology and Society
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674436978
eBook ISBN: 9780674436978
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674436954
Keywords for this book
Democracy.; Public records -- United States.; Management information systems.; Public administration -- Data processing.
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