Towards Democracy

Towards More Democracy in Social Services: Models of Culture and Welfare, de Gruyter ISBN: 3-11-014391-1
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Towards More Democracy in Social Services Models of Culture and Welfare (de Gruyter) ISBN: 978-3-11-014391-1 Gebunden XI, 419 S., 5 schw.-w. Abb., 12 schw.-w. Tab. - 24 x 17 cm Towards More Democracy in Social Services Models of Culture and Welfare Hrsg. v. Flösser, Gaby / Otto, Hans U Verlag : de Gruyter ISBN : 978-3-11-014391-1 Einband : Gebunden Preisinfo : 84,00 Eur[D] Seiten/Umfang : XI, 419 S., 5 schw.-w. Abb., 12 schw.-w. Tab. - 24 x 17 cm Erschienen : 1. Aufl. 29.05.1998 Gewicht : 832 g Aus der Reihe : International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence (ISCA)

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D'Estaing, V. Giscard (translated by Cronin, Vincent): Towards A New Democracy, London Collins 1977
ISBN: 0002161567 Very Good

Towards A New Democracy; D'Estaing, V. Giscard (translated by Cronin, Vincent): London, Collins, 1977, 1st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0002161567. Very Good book, slight edge spotting, internally tight and clean. Jacket very Good, not clipped slight rubs at corners and tips. 150pp First Edition Very Good Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: Giscard V. D'Estaing. Democracy. France. Politics..]

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CARPENTER, EDWARD. Towards Democracy. George Allen & Unwin Limited, London: 1921.

519 pages. "Freedom at last! Long sought, long prayed for - ages and ages long: The burden to which I continually return, seated here thick-booted and obvious yet dead and buried and passed into heaven, unsearchable;" And so begins Towards Democracy. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Fair condition.

[SW: (Key Words: Government, Democracy, Politics, History, Freedom, Edward Carpenter).]

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INFORMATIONSGESELLSCHAFT OSTEUROPA - Banse, Gerhard, Langenbach, Christian J. and Machleidt, Petr: Towards the Information Society - The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries; Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, Springer Verlag, 2000.
Band 9 der Reihe "Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung", Schriftenreihe der Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, herausgegeben von Carl Friedrich Gethmann. / Information and knowledge play an increasingly important role in the implementation of public policies, in particular those of the Central and Eastern European Countries. In the context of conducting research on the consequences of scientific and technological advance, the Europäische Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic organised a conference on the relation between "Democracy, Participation and Technology Assessment". The workshop provided an overview of the status and perspectives of Technology Assessement (TA) in the Individual Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The book consists of the final versions of the presented papers and reflections of the ideas and incentives sounded in the discussions. The book is addressed to researchers in the fields of social sience, humanities, information technology and technology assessment in particular.

Contents: 1.) Introduction: The genesis of the Project "TA-Eastern Europe" (Gerhard Banse); 2.) The Concept: Science, Democracy and Technological Risks (Jean-Jacques Salomon); Concepts of Information Society and the Social Function of Information (Gotthard Bechmann); The Way towards a Knowledge Society - Some Barriers not only for Countries in Transition (Lech. W. Zacher); Problems of the Production and Application of Knowledge in a Societal Transformation - The Czech Republic's Approach to Knowledge Society (Stanislav Provaznik, Adolf Filacek, Petr Machleidt); Innovation and Financial Intensity of R&D in Poland as the Polish Approach to the Knowledge Society (Ewa Okon-Horodynska); Russian Way to Information Society and New Understanding of Information Security - Statement (Dimitri V. Efremenko); 3.) The Application Fields of TA: Information Technology and Organisational Change - The Concept of Technological Practice (Gerd Schienstock); Data - Information - Knowledge, A trail of the Technological Enlightenment (Klaus Kornwachs); Information Technology - The forgotten Dimension of Modernisation (Otto Ulrich); Threats of the Global Net-Internet - The State of Development and Inquiry over the Information Society in Poland (Andrzej Kiepas); Scientific and Technological Progress, Democracy, Participation and Technology Assessment in Russia (Vitaly G. Gorokhov); Transformation of Society and Values in Slovakia (Pavel Fobel); 4.) The Judgement: Rationality and the Use of Language - Technology Assessment for Shaping the Knowledge Society (Armin Grunwald); Knowledge- and Value-Perequisites of Evaluation and Decision-Making (Ladislav Tondl); Ethical Norms for the Selection and Transfer of Knowledge (Stefan Berndes); 212 pages. [8°: 16 x 24 cm] hard card board covers; little wear on cover; just as new.

[SW: Technology Assessment Informationsgesellschaft Wissensgesellschaft Mitteleuropa Osteuropa Polen Tschechien Tschechische Republik Slowakei Rußland Sozialwissenschaft Informationstechnologie Geisteswissenschaft Demokratie Wissen Information Forschung]

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