[Commlist] New book: SimPolitics

Fenwick McKelvey is happy to announce his new book with MIT Press. 
SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers has been a 
decade in the making. You can read more about the book here at the 
press’s website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/ 
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/>

Described by Fred Turner, Stanford University as “essential reading for 
anyone who wants to understand how computers have shaped our political 
imagination—and our democracy," the book will be open access, making it 
easier to assign and for students to access.

For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers 
will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In 
SimPolitics, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics 
and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s. He shows how 
programmers, consultants, academics, political scientists, and peace 
activists all worked—sometimes in tandem, sometimes not—to build 
simulations to win campaigns, predict coups, forecast the future, and 
render politics as legible as a spreadsheet.

If the book might be of interest, I am happy to arrange a virtual or 
in-person talk or discussion later this Summer or Fall. If you know 
someone who might be interested in writing a scholarly review or even a 
review on Amazon or Goodreads, please let me know and I can arrange a 
digital reviewer copy of the book. Any help to share the book is deeply 
appreciated.

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