The Government Machine

Açıklama

"In The Government Machine Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action - a revolutionary move.

Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--Jacket.

• Data processing
• Civil service
• Government policy
• Effect of technological innovations on
• Public administration
• Computers
• History
• Civil service, great britain
• Ordinateurs
• Politique gouvernementale

Baskılar ve ISBN

2003

MIT Press · İngilizce
ISBN 9780585481180

2003

MIT Press · İngilizce · 564 sayfa
ISBN 9780262292900

2003

MIT Press · İngilizce · 564 sayfa
ISBN 9780262266857

2016

MIT Press · İngilizce · 564 sayfa
ISBN 9780262533881