Research Catalog

Title

Changing maps : governing in a world of rapid change / Steven A. Rosell, editor.

Publication

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Rosell, Steven A.
• Project on Governing in an Information Society.

Description

xiv, 253 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Second report of the Project on Governing in an Information Society

Subjects

• Management
• Policy sciences > Methodology
• Information society
• Public administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface: Governing in a World of Rapid Change -- Pt. I. Report of the Roundtable -- 1. Introduction. The Information Society. An Infrastructure for Learning. Findings of the Project during Phase I. Continuing the Search: The Second Phase of the Project. Constructing Shared Maps: The Scenario Approach. Beginning the Process. The Shape of the Report. 2. Re-Mapping the Territory: Three Perspectives. The Economy: A New Techno-economic Paradigm. Culture and Values: The Postmodern Challenge. The Social Contract: Rebuilding Social Infrastructure. 3. Constructing Scenarios. The Scenario Workshop. Starship Scenario. Titanic Scenario. HMS Bounty Scenario. Windjammer Scenario. 4. Changing Course: Toward Social Cohesion. Some Essential Requirements for Creating a Learning Society. Developing the Learning Capacity of Individuals. Learning Organizations and a Learning Society. Building on Diversity. Building Consensus: The Art of Coming to Public Judgment. The Public-judgement Model.
• The Importance of "Working Through" Navigating Some Obstacles to Public Judgement. 5. Continuing the Process: Building a Learning Society. Summary: Reviewing the Course We Have Followed So Far. Building a Learning Society: Re-balancing Economic and Social Concerns. Continuing the Process: A Preliminary Agenda. On the Importance of the Process. Next Steps -- Pt. II. Selected Papers Presented to the Roundtable. 6. Scenario Thinking About the Future / Kees van der Heijden. 7. The Information Economy: ICT and the Future of the World Economy / Chris Freeman. 8. Postmodernism, Pluralism, and the Crisis of Legitimacy / Walter Truett Anderson. 9. Communitarianism / Amitai Etzioni. 10. The Learning Society in the Information Age / Daniel P. Keating. 11. A Critique of the "Information Society" Concept / Daniel Yankelovich.

ISBN

0886292646 :

LCCN

cn 95900144

OCLC

ocm32085932

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries