The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer - Agar, Jon. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003)
Introduction: The State of Knowledge -- 1. The Machineries of Government -- 2. "The Parent of a Totally Different Order of Things": Charles Trevelyan and the Civil Service as Machine -- 3. "Chaotic England" and the Organized World: Official Statistics and Expert Statisticians -- 4. "One Universal Register": Fantasies and Realities of Total Knowledge -- 5. The Office Machinery of Government -- 6. An Information War -- 7. The Military Machine? -- 8. Treasury Organization and Methods and the Computerization of Government Work -- 9. Privacy and Distrust -- 10. Computers and Experts in the Hollowed-Out State, 1970-2000 -- Conclusions and International Perspectives.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-533) and index.
Keywords: Computers -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History; Public administration -- Great Britain -- Data processing -- History; Civil service -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Great Britain -- History