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Title Cybernetics and public administration / guest editors, Angela Espinosa and Allenna Leonard
Published Bradford, England : Emerald Group Pub., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Kybernetes, 0368-492X ; vol. 35, no. 1/2
Kybernetes ; vol. 35, no. 1/2
Contents Transcending organisational autism in the UN system response to HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Paradoxes of optimisation in public service management -- A cybernetic re-evaluation of socio-economic development programs -- Improving national accounts -- Identity: the paradoxical nature of organizational closure -- Momentum and control: a dynamic of democracy -- Governance of economic transitions: a case study of Ukraine -- A cybernetic diagnosis of Sri Lanka's 2002-2003 peace negotiations -- Identity: articulating cybernetics and sociology -- An ABC of British higher education -- Towards productive and sustainable forms of interaction in governance -- A systems approach to analysing sub-state conflicts -- HIV/AIDS: a threat to the viability of the societies it attacks -- Contemporary systems and cybernetics -- Cybernetics and systems on the web
Summary This e-book is made up of papers from the UK Cybernetics Society Annual Conference - CybCon 2004. The theme was cybernetics and public administration. Special attention is paid to issues related to governance as well as applications to analyse structural problems of governance and to illustrate application of these ideas in particular situations like development programs, national accounts, political stability and others
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Subject Cybernetics.
Public administration.
cybernetics.
COMPUTERS -- Cybernetics.
Cybernetics
Public administration
Form Electronic book
Author Espinosa Salazar, Angela Ma. (Angela María)
Leonard, Allenna
ISBN 1845448898
9781845448899