TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGinnis,John O.
TI  - Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology 
SN  - 9780691151021
AV  - JC423 
U1  - 320.014 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Internet
KW  - administrative government
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - bias
KW  - collective decision making
KW  - computational advances
KW  - computer
KW  - cultural cognition
KW  - democracy
KW  - dispersed media
KW  - earmarks
KW  - education reform
KW  - elections
KW  - empirical analysis
KW  - empiricism
KW  - federalism
KW  - friendly AI
KW  - governance
KW  - government data
KW  - information age
KW  - information costs
KW  - information markets
KW  - information technology
KW  - innate majoritarian bias
KW  - knowledge falsification
KW  - machine intelligence
KW  - majority rule
KW  - modern technology
KW  - political bias
KW  - political campaigns
KW  - political culture
KW  - political decision making
KW  - political information
KW  - political life
KW  - political prediction markets
KW  - politics
KW  - public action problem
KW  - public policy
KW  - regulation
KW  - representation
KW  - social governance
KW  - social knowledge
KW  - social planning
KW  - social policy
KW  - social science
KW  - social-scientific knowledge
KW  - special interests
KW  - status quo
KW  - technocracy
KW  - technological acceleration
KW  - technological change
KW  - term limits
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well as benefits. Accelerating Democracy shows how to adapt democracy to new information technologies that can enhance political decision making and enable us to navigate the social rapids ahead. John O. McGinnis demonstrates how these new technologies combine to address a problem as old as democracy itself--how to help citizens better evaluate the consequences of their political choices. As society became more complex in the nineteenth century, social planning became a top-down enterprise delegated to experts and bureaucrats. Today, technology increasingly permits information to bubble up from below and filter through more dispersed and competitive sources. McGinnis explains how to use fast-evolving information technologies to more effectively analyze past public policy, bring unprecedented intensity of scrutiny to current policy proposals, and more accurately predict the results of future policy. But he argues that we can do so only if government keeps pace with technological change. For instance, it must revive federalism to permit different jurisdictions to test different policies so that their results can be evaluated, and it must legalize information markets to permit people to bet on what the consequences of a policy will be even before that policy is implemented. Accelerating Democracy reveals how we can achieve a democracy that is informed by expertise and social-scientific knowledge while shedding the arrogance and insularity of a technocracy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400845453?locatt=mode:legacy
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