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We live in an age of democracy. Very few people challenge the virtues of 'government by the people', yet politicians and commentators are fond of decrying the 'crisis of democracy'. How do these views square up?This book provides the answer by surveying the philosophical history of democracy and its critics and by analysing empirical data about citizen participation in Britain and other developed democracies. In addition to analysis of major political thinkers like Plato, Machiavelli and J.S. Mill, the book analyses how modern technology has influenced democracy.Among the issues discussed in t
Political participation. --- Democracy --- Public opinion. --- Political participation --- Referendum --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- History. --- Ballot initiatives --- Ballot measures --- Initiative and referendum --- Initiatives, Ballot --- Propositions (Referendum) --- Referenda --- Referendums --- Elections --- Representative government and representation --- Direct democracy --- Plebiscite --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Republics --- Britain. --- J.S. Mill. --- Machiavelli. --- Plato. --- citizen participation. --- democracy. --- demonstrations. --- modern technology. --- political behaviour. --- riots.
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A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960's youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950's. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism. They were pioneers of cultural experimentation, the self-construction of identity, and the curating of the self, which, in different ways, have become so widespread today. In Profane Culture, Paul Willis develops an important and still very contemporary theory and methodology for understanding the constructions of lived and popular culture. His new preface discusses the ties between the cultural moment explored in the book and today.
Hippies --- Motorcyclists --- Popular culture --- Subculture --- Flower children --- Subcultures --- Bikers (Motorcyclists) --- Motorcycle drivers --- Motorcycle operators --- Motorcycle owners --- Motorcycle riders --- Riders, Motorcycle --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Counterculture --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Social groups --- Motor vehicle drivers --- Hippies - England --- Motorcyclists - England --- Popular culture - England --- Subculture - England --- 1950s. --- 1960s. --- bike culture. --- commodities. --- consciousness. --- control agencies. --- cultural development. --- cultural items. --- cultural politics. --- deaths. --- dialectic relationship. --- drug effects. --- drug experiences. --- drugs. --- expanded awareness. --- hippies. --- hippy culture. --- hippy identity. --- hippy life-style. --- hippy scene. --- identity. --- masculinity. --- mechanical skill. --- middle class. --- modern society. --- modern technology. --- mods. --- motor-bike boys. --- motor-bike club. --- motor-bike. --- motor-cycle. --- motorcyclist. --- mysticism. --- pop music. --- profanity. --- progressive music. --- progressive pop music. --- rock 'n' roll. --- spirituality. --- time. --- underprivileged groups. --- working class. --- youth culture.
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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.
Information technology --- Technological innovations --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Self-government --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Political aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- LAW / Science & Technology. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- New democracies --- 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.
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"This book, drawing on the author's 30-year career, seeks to define what constitutes good interpreting and how to develop the skills and abilities that are conducive to it. It places interpretation in its historical context and examines the uses and limitations of modern technology for interpreting"--
Congresses and conventions --- Language and culture. --- Simultaneous interpreting. --- Translating and interpreting --- Translating and interpreting. --- Translating services. --- Study and teaching. --- Technological innovations. --- Simultaneous interpreting --- Language and culture --- Translating services --- Study and teaching --- Technological innovations --- Interpreting --- Traduction simultanée. --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Simultaneous interpretation --- Simultaneous translating --- Simultaneous translation --- Translating --- Artificial intelligence and legal reasoning --- Artificial intelligence and the law --- Congresses and conventions - Translating services --- Translating and interpreting - Study and teaching --- Translating and interpreting - Technological innovations --- United Nations interpreter. --- artificial intelligence and interpreting. --- conference interpreting. --- diplomatic. --- effect of modern technology on translating and interpreting. --- history of multilingual communication. --- intercultural communication. --- international relations. --- interpreting. --- machine translation. --- multilingualism. --- translation.
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