Data processing, government and the public: reflections on the Italian case.
Author's main interests here are the institutional and political implications on the development of complex social science data bases. He will, however, touch only marginally the kind of broad political issues which have been widely discussed under headings such as 'computers and power' or 'computer...
| Publicado en: | International Social Science Journal Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 146 - 164 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb78
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