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Smart Citizens, Smarter State - The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing (Hardcover)
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Smart Citizens, Smarter State - The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing (Hardcover)
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Government "of the people, by the people, for the people" expresses
an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll
reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left "the
people" out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies
that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a
troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in
the industrial age. They are especially ill-suited to confronting
today's complex challenges. Offering a far-reaching program for
innovation, Smart Citizens, Smarter State suggests that public
decisionmaking could be more effective and legitimate if government
were smarter-if our institutions knew how to use technology to
leverage citizens' expertise. Just as individuals use only part of
their brainpower to solve most problems, governing institutions
make far too little use of the skills and experience of those
inside and outside of government with scientific credentials,
practical skills, and ground-level street smarts. New tools-what
Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise-are making it
possible to match the supply of citizen expertise to the demand for
it in government. Drawing on a wide range of academic disciplines
and practical examples from her work as an adviser to governments
on institutional innovation, Noveck explores how to create more
open and collaborative institutions. In so doing, she puts forward
a profound new vision for participatory democracy rooted not in the
paltry act of occasional voting or the serendipity of crowdsourcing
but in people's knowledge and know-how.
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