Index
| Abramowicz, Michael, 60, 65, 6–69, 70, 71, 112, 161, 176n1, 177n37, 178n44, 189n4 | |
| Abrams, Burton A., 32–33 | |
| Abrams, Samuel J., 129 | |
| Ackerman, Bruce, 139 | |
| Adler, Jonathan H., 103, 115 | |
| Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, 20 | |
| agent-based modeling, 107 | |
| Aguayo v. Richardson (1973), 56 | |
| Alesina, Alexandro, 127, 191n28 | |
| Alho, Eeva, 69 | |
| Alm, Richard, 19 | |
| American Republic, founding of, 154–56 | |
| Amico, Chris, 143 | |
| Ammirati, Rachel, 146 | |
| Anderson, Kenneth, 104, 188n55 | |
| Aron, Hillel, 140 | |
| Arrison, Sonia, 169n80, 190n20 | |
| Arthur, W. Brian, 150, 165n1 | |
| artificial intelligence (AI), 9, 94, 119; benefits of in an age of accelerating technology, 105–8; exaggerated fears of, 101–4; Friendly AI, 94, 102, 103, 104, 185n1; the futility of relinquishing AI and prohibiting battlefield robots, 100–101; and mimicking aspects of the human brain, 98; strong AI, 94, 95–99; threats of, 99–100 | |
| Athens, 34, 151–52; and the Council of 500, 151–52 | |
| Atkin, Charles, 182n45 | |
| Atluri, Satya N., 14 | |
| Aubuchon, Mark, 73 | |
| Aurther, Charles, 54 | |
| Axtell, Robert L., 106 | |
| Ayres, Ian, 106, 139 |
| Bacon, Francis, 47 | |
| Balz, Dan, 130 | |
| Bandyopadhyay, Subir, 182n52 | |
| Banerjee, Bibek, 182n52 | |
| Barberis, Nicholas, 69 | |
| Barboza, David, 170n10 | |
| Barnes, Robert, 184n69 | |
| Barro, Robert, 81–82 | |
| Bartels, Larry, 192n34 | |
| Bell, Tom W., 73 | |
| Bell’s law, 10, 12 | |
| Bennett, Robert, 78, 126–27 | |
| Berg, Joyce E., 71, 176n6 | |
| Berners-Lee, Tim, 56–57 | |
| bias, 121, 147; biased assimilation, 124; confirmation bias, 124, 129; and cultural cognition and motivated reasoning, 124–25; democracy’s capacity to act in the face of bias, 134–36; and experts, 34–35; framing, 125–26, 128; heuristic bias, 69; information technology and bias, 136–37; innate majoritarian bias, 123; “knowledge falsification” by the majority, 122–23; long-shot bias, 6–69; nature of, 121–22; representativeness bias, 69; special interest bias, 122; status quo bias, 123–24, 144. See also constraints on bias | |
| “big data” phenomenon, 105 | |
| Bill of Rights, 52–53, 53, 155 | |
| Bimber, Bruce, 33, 127 | |
| Blais, Lynn E., 114 | |
| Bleske, Glen L., 87 | |
| Bloch-Elkon, Yael, 129 | |
| blogs. See dispersed media | |
| Bollinger, Lee C., 74, 179n64 | |
| Bonneau, Chris W., 87 | |
| Borgatti, Stephen P., 188n64 | |
| Bowman, Quinn, 143 | |
| Braman, Donald, 125, 193n50 | |
| Brandeis, Louis, 50 | |
| Brennan, Geoffrey, 34 | |
| Brighton, Henry, 95, 186n14 | |
| Britain, 92; and the industrial age, 152–54; and Parliament, 153–54 |
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Book title: Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance through Technology.
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Publication year: 2013.
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