Putting Information Technology to Work

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Dery D. , “States Against Counties: Is Advanced Information Technology Centralization's New Saviour?” A Symposium Paper, The Center for Federalism, Issues and Opinions (forthcoming).

Fesler J.W. , Area and Administraton (University of Alabama Press, 1949), p. 25.

Wildavsky A. , “A Bias Toward Federalism: Wisdom on the Delivery of Governmental Services,” special issue of Publius, Vol. 6, No. 2 (July, 1976), pp. 96–97.

Dearden J. , “Computers and Profit Centers” in Mansfield E. (ed.), op. cit., pp. 289–302.

Dearden J. , op. cit., p. 295.

Simon H.A. , The New Science of Management Decsion (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1960), p. 45.

Simon H.A. , op. cit., p. 45.

Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, “Is General Motors' Size An Optimum?” in Watson D.S. (ed.), Price Theory in Action (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969), p. 254.

Note that in eleven California counties only, machinery is in operation seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. To the extent that it is used here in full capacity, the available machine time cannot be extended without further investment.

In all computerized counties in California the total annual cost of hardware, including data entry and communication hardware, is about $33 million, while the personnel cost for system analysts and programmers alone is about $30 million. See California Association of County Data Processing, Annual Survey (1975–76).

Dery D. , “The Bureaucratic Organization of Information Technology: Computers, Information Systems and Welfare Management,” unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, (1977).

Data provided in the 1976 contract between the Case Data counties and Alpha-Beta Association, the service provider.