Research Catalog

Title

The next deal : the future of public life in the information age / Andrei Cherny.

Author

Cherny, Andrei.

Publication

New York : Basic Books, 2000.

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Details

Description

xvi, 268 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "One Hundred Years Ago, the Progressives remade American government and community life for their own changing times - a moment that saw the birth of assembly line factories and one-size-fits-all products. In response, they built a government that was big, centralized, hierarchical, and bureaucratic. It is the twentieth century government we all know." "As the twenty-first century begins, America is changing again. Today, modern workplaces are geared toward empowering their employees with more personal decision-making power. Today, businesses are built on the idea of giving consumers a seemingly endless number of individual choices and personalized products."
• "But government lags behind those changes. We have an assembly line government in an Information Age, a politics that runs on the fumes of scandal and sound-bites because its ideas have run out of gas."
• "Now, Andrei Cherny offers a path forward that fits the world of this new century and the outlook of today's young people. The Next Deal shows us how to: take government decisions from bureaucrats and give them to ordinary Americans; break the stranglehold of powerful special interests on Washington; fix our failing public school system; require all young people to give a year of citizen service; return America to our bottom-up Jeffersonian roots and away from our modern top-down Hamiltonian rule; amend the Constitution to allow national initiatives; bring the promise of the New Economy to every American."--Jacket.

Subject

• Political participation > United States
• Information society > Political aspects > United States
• Information society > Political aspects
• Political participation
• Politics and government
• Politische Beteiligung
• Informationsgesellschaft
• United States > Politics and government
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255) and index.

Performer (note)

• WJC Memorial to Kathleen White class of 1927.

Contents

What I Saw at the Devolution -- The New Generation of Choice -- The Fall and Rise of the Individual -- The Choice Revolution -- The New Responsibility -- Postscript: A Newer World.

ISBN

• 0465009719
• 9780465009718

LCCN

00050736

OCLC

• ocm45172747
• 45172747
• SCSB-1149272

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library