| Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing Subjects: Public administration -- United States -- Citizen participation; Public administration -- United States -- Decision making; Public administration -- Technological innovations -- United States; Political participation -- Technological innovations -- United; Government "of the people, by the people, for the people" expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left "the people" out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the industrial age. They are especially ill-suited to confronting today's complex challenges. Noveck Beth Simone : Beth Simone Noveck is Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at the New York University School of Engineering and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. She directs the Governance Lab. |