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democratic dilemmas and technological change

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An edition of Technical fouls (2000)

Technical fouls

democratic dilemmas and technological change

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"What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources.

He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. Students and scholars of science, technology, and society should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today."--BOOK JACKET.

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Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
196

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Subjects

Democracy, Social aspects, Social aspects of Technology, Technology, Technology and state, Technology, social aspects, Science and state, Politique scientifique et technique, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General
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Technical Fouls: Democratic Dilemma and Technological Change
July 2000, Westview Press
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Technical fouls: democratic dilemmas and technological change
2000, Westview Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190) and index.

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Boulder, Colo
Series
Interventions--theory and contemporary politics

Classifications

Library of Congress
T49.5 .J33 2000, T49.5 .J33 2000, T49.5. J33 2000, T49.5.J33 2000, T49.5

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 196 p. ;
Number of pages
196

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OL18141214M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0813319994
LCCN
00029619
OCLC/WorldCat
1022846139, 43728972
Library Thing
3736495
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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2348192

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The primary problem in the "social control of the sciences," Nigel Calder observed, is reconciling "specialist expertise and long-range planning with the generalism of democracy in a way where ordinary citizens' wishes are heeded and experts neither bow nor dictate to administrative authority."
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