COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monti, Andrea
Otros Autores: Wacks, Raymond
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Temas:
COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19
COVID-19.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Confronting contagion
  • Surviving COVID
  • Nationalism
  • Geopolitics
  • Restricting rights
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Science and power
  • What is public policy?
  • Policy and persuasion
  • Playing God
  • Public policy and science
  • Is all knowledge scientific?
  • Is it merely 'the method' that turns knowledge into science?
  • Explanation versus 'truth'
  • Are social sciences 'objective'?
  • Neutrality versus reality
  • Shades of power
  • Statistics can lie
  • Numbers as an instrument of social control
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Law, rights, and public policy
  • The impact on civil liberties
  • The perception of restricted civil liberties
  • Free speech and fake news
  • Privacy and public safety
  • Governments and fundamental rights
  • References
  • Chapter 4 The technology of information
  • The genesis of mass surveillance
  • Private profiling
  • The computer revolution in surveillance and control
  • Information technology and a panopticon society
  • The growth of the technology of information
  • The technology of profiling
  • An empirical check
  • A case study
  • References
  • Chapter 5 The politics of the pandemic
  • Science and superstition
  • The media
  • The rule of law
  • The courts
  • Italy
  • References
  • Epilogue
  • Index

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