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Pool, Ithiel Desola was born on October 26, 1917 in New York City.
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In this study Mr. Pool has shown what is meant by the word democracy on each side of the iron curtain. He has shown the different connotations of democracy; where the emphasis is on freedom and where it is on the power of the masses. He has devised some new techniques involving a general theory of communication to measure the ways by which people in the East and West use the word.
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American Business and Public Policy is a study of the politics of foreign trade. It challenges fifty years of writing on pressure politics. It includes nine hundred interviews with heads of corporations, including 166 of the 200 largest corporations; another 500 interviews with congressmen, lobbyists, journalists, and opinion leaders; and eight community studies making this book the most intensive survey in print of the politics of business. It is a realistic behavioral examination of a major type of economic decision. The authors introduce their study with a history of the tariff as a political issue in American politics and a history of American tariff legislation in the years from Europe's trade recovery under the Marshall Plan to the challenge of the Common Market. They examine in succession the changing attitudes of the general public and the political actions of the business community, the lobbies, and Congress. American Business and Public Policy is a contribution to social theory in several of its branches. It is a contribution to understanding the business community, to the social psychology of communication and attitude change, to the study of political behavior in foreign policy. American Business and Public Policy is at once a study of a classic issue in American politics—the tariff; decision-making, particularly the relation of economic to social-psychological theories of behavior; business communication—what businessmen read about world affairs, what effect foreign travel has on them, where they turn for political advice, and how they seek political help; pressure politics, lobbying, and the Congressional process.
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This book compiles one of the major world attention surveys from the early period of content analysis. Originally produced by the RADIR Project at the Hoover Institution, Prestige Press seeks to provide ways of measuring the ideological and social trends that constitute "the world revolution of our time." As an exploratory work in the statistical tabulation and analysis of communication symbols, the significance of this study lies as much in its research methodology as in its substantive results. To measure the fluctuations of political concepts, Professor Pool and his colleagues traced the flow of symbols in newspaper editorials of the "prestige papers" in Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States from 1890 to 1950. Counting editorials containing each of several hundred key symbols, the study documents some interesting trends in contemporary belief systems and related social phenomena—particularly those pertaining to democracy and authoritarianism, nationalism and internationalism, violence and peace, "self" and "other." Some of these trends have become even more evident today. For instance, Professor Pool in his Introduction to this new edition notes an increased emphasis on symbols relating to mass participation in democracy; a growing focus on violence in American society; and a continuing trend toward nationalism in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, Pool's investigation found that the other countries studied are paying increased attention to the outside world. This early study exemplifies the research techniques developed in precomputer days, but Pool indicates that they can be readily adapted to new procedures of quantitative analysis. Since the advent of computers has revived interest in content analysis, the book will prove useful in related applications in the fields of sociology, political science, and international relations. This is the eleventh volume in the M.I.T. Comparative Politics Series. Harold D. Lasswell and Daniel Lerner, general editors of the series, write in the new foreword that "The present volume is a welcome addition to the series because it illustrates with particular point our editorial interest in the continuity of empirical research on the historical context of current issues of public policy as they arise from the continuing 'world revolution of our time.'"
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Today, a communications revolution is afoot, in which print is being rapidly displaced by cables, computers, videodisks, and satellites. In a masterly synthesis of history, law, and technology, Ithiel de Sola Pool lays bare the elements of this problem and suggests measures to ensure the preservation of freedom. This is a timely book of overwhelming social importance.
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This book applies the approach of technology assessment to the telephone. The author's analysis forecasts the effect of the telephone on society and compares it with the reality. This book not only examines the social consequences of the telephone, but provides a model for future efficient assessments of new technologies. It documents a largely unknown piece of the history of American technology and anlayzes the requirements for success in technological forecasting.
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Pool, Ithiel Desola was born on October 26, 1917 in New York City.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1938; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1952.
Chairman division social science, Hobart College, 1942-1949;
associate director, RADIR project Hoover Institute, Stanford University, 1949-1953;
professor political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953-1984;
founder, 1st department chairman political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959-1961, 65-69;
fellow Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957-1958. Visiting professor Keio U., Tokyo, 1976. Member science advisory board United States Air Force, 1961-1964.
Mem-at-large Defense Science Board, 1968-1971. Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge U., England, 1977.
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Council Foreign Relations, American Political Science Association, American Association Public Opinion Research (posthumous award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement, 1984), Cosmos Club.
Son of David deSola and Tamar (Hirshenson) P. Married Jean MacKenzie, March 3, 1956. Cildren: Jonathan, Jeremy, Adam.