Advanced systems for program appraisal: prospects for General Systems Decision Support centres in the USA

Wood, Fred B.

doi:10.1080/02688867.1987.9726606

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“…THE LARGELY unrealized potential application of general systems research to the political process has been recognized for decades by researchers such as Wiener [27,28], Bertalanffy [5], Deutsch [34]. The purpose here is to illustrate how selected concepts from engineering systems, specifically information theory and the mathematical theory of cornmunication (as developed by Shannon [21]), can be applied to allocate the access of political candidates to communication media such as cable television.…”

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1988

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Abstract-A key tenet of information theory, Shannon's mathematical equation for the information entropy of a discrete communication channel. is applied by analogy to illustrate how access to political communication channels such as cable television could be allocated. Application of this equation provides a basis for maximizing the information entropy of political communication. However. such applications must overcome a number of theoretical and practical limitations to be politically viable.

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Advanced systems for program appraisal: prospects for General Systems Decision Support centres in the USA

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