Title:                      Information Technology in A Democracy

Author:                Alan F. Westin

Westin, Alan F. (1971), ed. Information Technology in A Democracy. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press

LCCN:    72143233

JK468.A8 W45

Subjects

• Public administration–Data processing.
• Management information systems.
• Public records–United States.
• Democracy.
• Information technology–United States.

Series

• Harvard studies in technology and society

Date Posted:      April 15, 2016

Reviewed by Paul W. Blackstock and Frank L. Schaf[1]

The editor describes this work as “an edited collection of original and secondary materials about government use of information technology … [which] includes descriptions of information technology systems by the agency spokesman and consultants who have created them, providing readers with the operating assumptions, systems objectives, and stages of development as the managers of these systems see these happenings.”

[1] Blackstock, Paul W. (1978) and Frank L. Schaf, Jr. Intelligence, Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Operations: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., p. 88-89.