Public administration in the information age : revisited /

The information age has become a reality, and has brought with it many implications for public administration. New ICT's offer new opportunities for government and governing, but at the same time they pose challenges in some key areas of public administration, like trust, or the idea of checks...

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Corporate Author: IOS Press
Other Authors: Snellen, I. Th. M., Thaens, Marcel, Donk, Wim van de, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, 2012
Series:Innovation and the public sector ; v. 19.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Constructive Phases of Theory Since 1998
  • Key-Issues. Trust and ICT: New Challenges for Public Administration ; From Trias to Tetras Politica: The Need for Additional Checks and Balances. Illustrated by Immigration Law.
  • Aspects of Democracy. Digital Democracy: Vision and Reality ; Political Parties in the Information Age: Any signs of Re-intermediation? ; Towards an Informed Electorate? Voter-Information Websites and Representative Democracy ; Social Networks and e-Voting: A New Impulse for Democracy? ; Micro-Mobilization, New Media Power and the Management of Strategic Surprises ; Local e-Democracy in Five European Countries: Convergence and Divergence in Democratic Development.
  • Structural Conditions. Plus Ça Change? ICT and Structural Change in Government ; ICT, Innovation and Governance Capacity. Looking beyond the Explanatory Emptiness of the E-government Concept ; Understanding Infocracies: Trends in the Transformation of Organizations ; Large-Scale Information Exchange: Breaking Views and Challenges ; Maturity Models in the Age of Digital Diversity: Beyond the Layne & amp; Lee Legacy ; The Nuts and Bolts of Administrative Action in an Information Age.
  • Towards Implementation. Free the Legislative Process of its Paper Chains: IT-inspired Redesign of the Legislative Procedure ; Human Resource Management in the Information Age ; Street Level Bureaucrats.
  • Some Concluding Thoughts. Too Early To Say.