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Policy Practice and Digital Science

Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy Research

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  1. Marijn Janssen

    1. Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  2. Maria A. Wimmer

    1. Institute for Information Systems Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

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  3. Ameneh Deljoo

    1. Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  • Provides in-depth knowledge of practice, structures of public administration and constitutions, political cultures, processes and culture and policy-making
  • Examines social and professional networking and multidisciplinary constituency building along the axes of technology, participative processes, governance, policy modeling, social simulation and visualization
  • Analyzes the use of data, predictions and forecasts and their ability to improve policy-making outcomes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT, volume 10)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction to Policy-Making in the Digital Age

    • Marijn Janssen, Maria A. Wimmer
    Pages 1-14

  5. Policy Making and Modelling in a Complex World

    • Wander Jager, Bruce Edmonds
    Pages 57-73

  7. Features and Added Value of Simulation Models Using Different Modelling Approaches Supporting Policy-Making: A Comparative Analysis

    • Dragana Majstorovic, Maria A Wimmer, Roy Lay-Yee, Peter Davis, Petra Ahrweiler
    Pages 95-123

  8. A Comparative Analysis of Tools and Technologies for Policy Making

    • Eleni Kamateri, Eleni Panopoulou, Efthimios Tambouris, Konstantinos Tarabanis, Adegboyega Ojo, Deirdre Lee et al.
    Pages 125-156

  9. Value Sensitive Design of Complex Product Systems

    • Andreas Ligtvoet, Geerten van de Kaa, Theo Fens, Cees van Beers, Paulier Herder, Jeroen van den Hoven
    Pages 157-176

  10. Stakeholder Engagement in Policy Development: Observations and Lessons from International Experience

    • Natalie Helbig, Sharon Dawes, Zamira Dzhusupova, Bram Klievink, Catherine Gerald Mkude
    Pages 177-204

  11. Values in Computational Models Revalued

    • Rebecca Moody, Lasse Gerrits
    Pages 205-219

  13. Active and Passive Crowdsourcing in Government

    • Euripidis Loukis, Yannis Charalabidis
    Pages 261-289

  14. Management of Complex Systems: Toward Agent-Based Gaming for Policy

    • Wander Jager, Gerben van der Vegt
    Pages 291-303

  15. The Role of Microsimulation in the Development of Public Policy

    • Roy Lay-Yee, Gerry Cotterell
    Pages 305-320

  16. Visual Decision Support for Policy Making: Advancing Policy Analysis with Visualization

    • Tobias Ruppert, Jens Dambruch, Michel Krämer, Tina Balke, Marco Gavanelli, Stefano Bragaglia et al.
    Pages 321-353

  17. Analysis of Five Policy Cases in the Field of Energy Policy

    • Dominik Bär, Maria A. Wimmer, Jozef Glova, Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Laurence Brooks
    Pages 355-378
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About this book

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to navigate the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for this new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blending. Both policy makers, executors and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 point to the specific applications of social networks, semantically enriched and linked data, whereas policy-making has also to do with the use of the vast amount of data, predictions and forecasts, and improving the outcomes of policy-making, which is confronted with an increasing complexity and uncertainty of the outcomes. The field of policy-making is changing and driven by developments like open data, computational methods for processing data, opining mining, simulation and visualization of rich data sets, all combined with public engagement, social media and participatory tools.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Marijn Janssen, Ameneh Deljoo

  • Institute for Information Systems Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Policy Practice and Digital Science

  • Book Subtitle: Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy Research

  • Editors: Marijn Janssen, Maria A. Wimmer, Ameneh Deljoo

  • Series Title: Public Administration and Information Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12784-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12783-5Published: 12 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35277-0Published: 09 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12784-2Published: 03 June 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2512-1812

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-1839

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 431

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Administration, Innovation/Technology Management, Political Communication

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