William C Birdsall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1010552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William C Birdsall |
| GIVEN NAMES | William C |
| FAMILY NAME | Birdsall |
| SIGNATURE | BIRDSALL W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Other Unconscious
In this article, the author describes a possibly unfamiliar unconscious, namely the unconscious that arises from how our brains have evolved. That unconscious is active in sense perceptions, in many verbal and nonverbal aspects of language, and from our brains' propensity to posit instant explanations independent of relevant information. All of the sources used in the exposition are readily available to persons without any formal knowledge of sen…
Solving Problems of Disclosure Risk While Retaining Key Analytic Uses of Publicly Released Microdata
MEASURES USED TO PROTECT SUBJECTS in publicly distributed microdata files often have a significant negative impact on key analytic uses of the data. For example, it may be important to analyze subpopulations within a data file such as racial minorities, yet these subjects may present the greatest disclosure risk because their records tend to stand out or be unique. Files or records that are linkable create another type of disclosure risk-common e…
Geography matters
Policy circles have long made the assumption that information and communications technologies promote human development. In mapping the Human Development Index (HDI) against the Digital Access Index (DAI) we explore the statistical and spatial relationship between human development and digital access. The results suggest information and communications technologies may not play as strong a role in promoting human development as is usually asserted…
The Internet and the right to communicate
The development of the Internet challenges traditional conceptions of information rights. The discourse surrounding these rights and the Internet typically deals with each right in isolation and attempt to adapt long established understandings of each right to the new technological environment. We contend there is a need to address information rights within a comprehensive human rights framework, specifically, a right to communicate. This paper e…
Social Security after Fifty Years
The Future of Social Security
Social security has been the most, perhaps the only, popular social welfare program in the United States. Until recently it has steadily expanded in coverage, beneficiaries, and costs with little fanfare or notice. Since the mid-1970s that expansion has begun to threaten its financial soundness. Literal bankruptcy has become a short-run possibility as expenditures continually outrun receipts. Worse, in some respect, is the realistic possibility t…
Social Justice and Public Policy
Social Security
Child support and public policy
The Problem of Structure in the Knights of Labor
Although even the amateur student of labor history is aware that the administrative structure and functioning of the Knights of Labor differed considerably in practice from what it was supposed be in theory, it is extremely difficult piece together from existing literature a clear picture of the actual organization of the Knights. By dint of extensive research into Convention proceedings and other records, Mr. Birdsall has succeeded in delineatin…
The Future of Social Security
Social security has been the most, perhaps the only, popular social welfare program in the United States. Until recently it has steadily expanded in coverage, beneficiaries, and costs with little fanfare or notice. Since the mid-1970s that expansion has begun to threaten its financial soundness. Literal bankruptcy has become a short-run possibility as expenditures continually outrun receipts. Worse, in some respect, is the realistic possibility t…
Social Justice and Public Policy
The Problem of Structure in the Knights of Labor
Although even the amateur student of labor history is aware that the administrative structure and functioning of the Knights of Labor differed considerably in practice from what it was supposed be in theory, it is extremely difficult piece together from existing literature a clear picture of the actual organization of the Knights. By dint of extensive research into Convention proceedings and other records, Mr. Birdsall has succeeded in delineatin…
Solving Problems of Disclosure Risk While Retaining Key Analytic Uses of Publicly Released Microdata
MEASURES USED TO PROTECT SUBJECTS in publicly distributed microdata files often have a significant negative impact on key analytic uses of the data. For example, it may be important to analyze subpopulations within a data file such as racial minorities, yet these subjects may present the greatest disclosure risk because their records tend to stand out or be unique. Files or records that are linkable create another type of disclosure risk-common e…
The Problem of Structure in the Knights of Labor
Although even the amateur student of labor history is aware that the administrative structure and functioning of the Knights of Labor differed considerably in practice from what it was supposed be in theory, it is extremely difficult piece together from existing literature a clear picture of the actual organization of the Knights. By dint of extensive research into Convention proceedings and other records, Mr. Birdsall has succeeded in delineatin…
Child support and public policy
Social Justice and Public Policy
Social Security
The Future of Social Security
Social security has been the most, perhaps the only, popular social welfare program in the United States. Until recently it has steadily expanded in coverage, beneficiaries, and costs with little fanfare or notice. Since the mid-1970s that expansion has begun to threaten its financial soundness. Literal bankruptcy has become a short-run possibility as expenditures continually outrun receipts. Worse, in some respect, is the realistic possibility t…
Social Security after Fifty Years
The Internet and the right to communicate
The development of the Internet challenges traditional conceptions of information rights. The discourse surrounding these rights and the Internet typically deals with each right in isolation and attempt to adapt long established understandings of each right to the new technological environment. We contend there is a need to address information rights within a comprehensive human rights framework, specifically, a right to communicate. This paper e…
Geography matters
Policy circles have long made the assumption that information and communications technologies promote human development. In mapping the Human Development Index (HDI) against the Digital Access Index (DAI) we explore the statistical and spatial relationship between human development and digital access. The results suggest information and communications technologies may not play as strong a role in promoting human development as is usually asserted…
Solving Problems of Disclosure Risk While Retaining Key Analytic Uses of Publicly Released Microdata
MEASURES USED TO PROTECT SUBJECTS in publicly distributed microdata files often have a significant negative impact on key analytic uses of the data. For example, it may be important to analyze subpopulations within a data file such as racial minorities, yet these subjects may present the greatest disclosure risk because their records tend to stand out or be unique. Files or records that are linkable create another type of disclosure risk-common e…
The Other Unconscious
In this article, the author describes a possibly unfamiliar unconscious, namely the unconscious that arises from how our brains have evolved. That unconscious is active in sense perceptions, in many verbal and nonverbal aspects of language, and from our brains' propensity to posit instant explanations independent of relevant information. All of the sources used in the exposition are readily available to persons without any formal knowledge of sen…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Social security (3 works) · Criminology (2 works)