Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Z. Margetts, Simon Bastow

Digital Era Governance

It Corporations, the State, and E-Government

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the world of e-government - the use by government of IT to interact with citizens, businesses, and other governments - and the significant role of IT corporations in this process in seven countries. Government information systems are big business (around 1.5% of GDP) and critical to all aspects of public policy and operations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780199547005
• ISBN-10: 0199547009
• Artikelnr.: 24765602

Autorenporträt

Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Information Technology and Public Policymaking
* 1: The Theory of Modern Bureaucracy and the Neglected Role of IT
* 2: Acquiring and Managing Government IT
* 3: The Comparative Performance of Government IT
* 4: Explaining Performance I: Government Institutions, New Public
Management and Bureaucratic Cultures
* 5: Explaining Performance II: Competitive Tension and the Power of
the IT Industry
* 6: Taxation: Re-Modernizing Legacy IT and Getting Taxpayers Online
* 7: Social Security: Managing Mass Payment and Responding to Welfare
State Change
* 8: Immigration: Technology Changes and Adminstrative Renewal
* 9: New Public Management is Dead - Long Live Digital Era Governance
* Afterword: Looking Ahead on Technology Trends, Industry Organization,
and Government IT