Governance in the Information Era Theory and Practice of Policy Informatics [Paperback]

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.

Foreward Rick Shangraw  Introduction  1. Conceptualizing Policy Informatics Erik W. Johnston  Part 1: Basics  2. The Value and Limits of Government Information Resources for Policy Informatics Sharon S. Dawesand Natalie C. Helbig  3. Evidence for Policy Inquiry Anand Desai and Kristin Harlow  4. Visualization Meets Policy Making: Visual Traditions, Policy Complexity, Strategic Investments Evert Lindquist  Part 2: Analysis  5. The Endogenous Point of View in Policy Informatics George P. Richardson6. Model-Based Policy Design that Takes Implementation Seriously I. David Wheat  7. Public-Private Partnerships: A Study of Risk Allocation Design Envelopes David N. Ford, Ivan Damnjanovic, and Scott T. Johnson  8. Policy Informatics with Small System Dynamics Models: How Small Models Can Help the Public Policy Process Navid Ghaffarzadegan, John Lyneis, and George P. Richardsl³"