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Investigative reporting generates new information about important issues that someone is trying to keep secret. Impacts of this journalism can be high. Yet the costs of discovering and telling these stories may also be significant. Democracy's Detectives uses economic theories of information to explain both how institutions breakdown in predictable ways and how journalists find and reveal which programs, products, and people go astray. The book analyzes the market for investigative reporting by examining more than 12,000 prize competition entries from 1979 to 2010 in the annual awards contest of Investigative Reporters and Editors. The results show what these investigative works in the United States uncovered and their impacts, and how the investigations were conducted and financially supported. Case studies of several investigative series demonstrate that each dollar invested in a story can yield hundreds of dollars in policy benefits. Examining the work of a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter shows how a single journalist over four decades generated more than 150 investigations that led to changes, including the passage of thirty-one state laws. Many valuable accountability stories go untold because media outlets bear the costs of reporting while the benefits spillover onto those who don't read or watch these investigations. Computational journalism may improve the economics of investigative reporting in two ways: lowering the cost of finding stories through better use of data and algorithms, and telling stories in more personalized and engaging ways. While breakdowns in institutions are inevitable, the combination of computation and journalism offers an expanded set of people new ways to hold those in power accountable and serve as democracy's detectives.--

Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating book, James Hamilton investigates the vibrant exchange between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain, which became a centre for world commerce following the industrial revolution. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing mid

Enrolling over 30 million acres, the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest conservation program in the United States. Under the guidelines of the CRP, the federal government pays farmers to stop farming their land in the hopes of achieving a variety of conservation goals, including the reduction of soil erosion, improvement of water quality, and creation of wildlife habitat. In Conserving Data, James T. Hamilton explores the role of information in the policy cycle as it relates to the CRP. The author asks how the creation and distribution of information about what is going on

Intro -- Preface -- Note on Editions of Hobbes's Works -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Psychology of Creativity and Hobbes -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Interest to Scholars -- 1.3 What Is Creativity? -- 1.4 Approach -- 1.5 Creative Cognition -- 1.6 Evidence -- Chapter 2: Hobbes's Development, Personality, and Motivation -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Childhood, Youth, and Education -- 2.3 The Cavendishes -- 2.4 Other Facilitators -- 2.5 Intellectual Industry -- 2.6 Controversy and Vitriol -- 2.7 Productive Old Age -- 2.8 Mental Illness? -- 2.9 Early Personality Development -- 2.10 Developing Creative Cognition -- 2.11 Personality Traits and Characteristics -- 2.12 Motivation -- Chapter 3: Cognition and the Passions -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Replacing the Soul -- 3.3 Sense and Imagination -- 3.4 Memory -- 3.5 Thought -- 3.6 Reasoning -- 3.7 The Passions -- 3.8 Felicity, the Ancients, and Bacon -- 3.9 Eudaimonia -- 3.10 Bacon on the Active Good -- 3.11 Hobbes on Felicity -- 3.12 Hobbes vs. the Ancients -- 3.13 Dialectical Thinking and Inversion -- Chapter 4: Moral Relativity and the Sovereign -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Moral Relativity in The Elements of Law -- 4.3 Moral Relativity in De Cive -- 4.4 Moral Relativity in Leviathan -- 4.5 Sepconic Articulation and Emergence -- Chapter 5: The State of Nature -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 The Theory of Historical Progress -- 5.3 Anarchy and Civil War -- 5.4 Moral Relativity and Subjective Rights -- 5.5 Natural Equality -- 5.6 Passions -- 5.7 Divergent Thinking and Sepconic Articulation -- Chapter 6: The Civil State and Popular Sovereignty -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 The Problem and the Goal -- 6.3 The Theory of Popular Sovereignty -- 6.4 Establishing the Civil State -- 6.5 Attack on Popular Sovereignty -- 6.6 Hobbes's Adversarial Thinking -- Chapter 7: Hobbes's Creative Virtuosity -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.2 Hobbes.

This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity. Creativity is the production of something which experts consider to be original, valuable and of high quality. James Hamilton explores Hobbes's creativity by focusing on his development, personality, and motivation in the context of his culture and environment, and on the ways in which he thought creatively, as inferred from his writings. Identification of the ideas which Hobbes drew upon is an important part of the study for two reasons. First, they are necessary to determine which of Hobbes's ideas and theories are original and which are not. Second, analysis of his creativity requires an understanding of the ideas from which he drew. Hamilton concludes that Hobbes became a great philosopher because of his creative virtuosity. James J. Hamilton served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1979 to 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1978, and taught briefly at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.