Shaping the Architecture of the U.S. Information and Communication Technology Architecture: A Political Economic Analysis.
How did political economy help shape the revolution in telecommunications and computer networking? We offer three, arguments concerning the impact of political economy and policy on the architecture of the U.S. information and communication technology infrastructure. First, it tilted toward an archi...
| Published in: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 26; no. 1/2; pp. 105 - 126 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
January/March 2009
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