Smart Citizens, Smarter State - The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

Informationen zum Autor Beth Simone Noveck is Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. She directs the Governance Lab. Klappentext Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools¿what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise¿are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. She offers a vision of participatory democracy rooted not in voting or crowdsourcing but in people¿s knowledge and know-how. Zusammenfassung Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. She offers a vision of participatory democracy rooted not in voting or crowdsourcing but in people’s knowledge and know-how.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Simone Noveck, Noveck Beth Simone
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780674286054
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28605-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general