COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age

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Main Author: Monti, Andrea
Other Authors: Wacks, Raymond
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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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