Organized social complexity : challenge to politics and policy /
One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phen...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
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1975.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 / La Porte, Todd R.
- Chapter II. Complexity and the Limits of Human Understanding / Winner, Langdon
- Chapter III. Organizational Complexity in the New Industrial State: The Role of Technology / Taylor, J. Serge
- PART TWO. Approaches in Policy Analysis and Design
- Chapter IV. Complexity, Planning, and Public Order / Ruggie, John Gerard
- Chapter V. The Use of Systems Constructs in Simplifying Organized Social Complexity / Starling, Jay D.
- PART THREE. Methodology: Some Implications for Research
- Chapter VI. Analysis of Complex Systems: An Experiment and Its Implications For Policy Making / Brewer, Garry D.
- Chapter VII. On Studying the Future Behavior of Complex Systems / Metlay, Daniel
- PART FOUR. Prospects in the Study of Social Complexity
- Chapter IX. Complexity as a Theoretical Problem: Wider Perspectives in Political Theory / Wilson, Harlan
- Chapter X. Complexity and Uncertainty: Challenge to Action / La Porte, Todd R.
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter
