Organized social complexity [electronic resource] : challenge to politics and policy / edited by Todd R. La Porte.
พิมพลักษณ์
Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 2015.
จำนวนหน้า
1 online resource (xiv, 373 p. pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
Organized social complexity: challenge to politics and policy -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Part One: Explication of the Concept of Organized Complexity: Studies in Its Effects -- Chapter I: Organized Social Complexity: Explication of a Concept -- Chapter II: Complexity and the Limits of Human Understanding -- Chapter III: Organizational Complexity in the New Industrial State: The Role of Technology -- Part Two: Approaches in Policy Analysis and Design -- Chapter IV: Complexity, Planning, and Public Order -- Chapter V: The Use of Systems Constructs in Simplifying Organized Social Complexity -- Chapter VI: Analysis of Complex Systems: An Experiment and Its Implications For Policy Making -- Chapter VII: On Studying the Future Behavior of Complex Systems -- Chapter VIII: The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Case Study of Complexity in Educational Institutions -- Part Four: Prospects in the Study of Social Complexity -- Chapter IX: Complexity as a Theoretical Problem: Wider Perspectives in Political Theory -- Chapter X: Complexity and Uncertainty: Challenge to Action -- Bibliography -- Index.