Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory platforms and citizen science to explore complex governance challenges in domains that include education, environment, and health.
Author(s): Erik W. Johnston
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2015
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 393
Tags: Public Administration: Technological Innovations; Communication In Politics: Technological Innovations; Electronic Government Information
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
Foreword
Acknowledgments
PART I Introduction
1 Conceptualizing Policy Informatics
PART II The Basics
2 The Value and Limits of Government Information Resources for Policy Informatics
3 Evidence for Policy Inquiry
4 Visualization Meets Policy Making: Visual Traditions, Policy Complexity, Strategic Investments
PART III Analysis
5 The Endogenous Point of View in Policy Informatics
6 Model-Based Policy Design that Takes Implementation Seriously
7 Public-Private Partnerships: A Study of Risk Allocation Design Envelopes
8 Policy Informatics with Small System Dynamics Models: How Small Models Can Help the Public Policy Process
9 Quantitative Modeling of Violent Group Behavior Using Open-Source Intelligence
10 Making a Difference
PART IV Administration
11 Governance Informatics: Using Computer Simulation Models to Deepen Situational Awareness and Governance Design Considerations
12 The Role of Informatics in Education Research and Policy
13 Policy Modeling of Large-Scale Social Systems: Lessons from the SKIN Model of Innovation
14 Lend Me Your Expertise: Citizen Sourcing Advice to Government
PART V Governance Infrastructure
15 Synthetic Information Environments for Policy Informatics: A Distributed Cognition Perspective
16 Participatory Simulation as a Tool of Policy Informatics: Definitions, Literature Review, and Research Directions
17 Action Brokering for Community Engagement: A Case Study of ACTion Alexandria
18 Breaking the Silos of Silence: The Importance of New Forms of Knowledge Incubation for Policy Informatics
PART VI Conclusion
19 The Future of Policy Informatics
Contributors
Index