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SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers (Information Policy) - Softcover

McKelvey, Fenwick

 
9780262053198: SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers (Information Policy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262053195 ISBN 13: 9780262053198
Verlag: The MIT Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

How computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem.

For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In SimPolitics, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s. He shows how programmers, consultants, academics, political scientists, and peace activists all worked—sometimes in tandem, sometimes not—to build simulations to win campaigns, predict coups, forecast the future, and render politics as legible as a spreadsheet.

Drawing on novel archival and historical research, McKelvey recounts the history of efforts to simulate politics by building models of elections, voters, and international relations. Comparing attempts in the United States to simulate domestic electoral politics and international affairs, he reveals the unexamined connections and conflicts between the two projects. His book provides a helpful guide to taking stock of exaggerated claims that AI and technology will fix politics, while presenting the long history of such promised technological fixes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Fenwick McKelvey is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Codirector of the Applied AI Institute at Concordia University. He is the author of Internet Daemons and coauthor of The Permanent Campaign.

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Verlag
The MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262053195
ISBN 13 
9780262053198
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
380
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