Public administration in the information age
Subtitle: revisited
By: edited by Ig Snellen, Marcel Thaens, Wim van de Donk
Series: Innovation and the public sector -- volume 19; Innovation and the public sector -- v. 19.
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781614991366; 9781614991373
Subjects: Internet in public administration; Public administration; Data processing; Information technology; Political aspects; Administrative agencies
Description: "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 and balances. This book is an examination of the developments and effects of ICT in public administration over the last 10 to 15 years. It represents a re-visiting of the 1998 IOS Press publication 'Public Administration in an Information Age: A Handbook'. As a point of departure, the authors of this new book have chosen the speed of the succession of theoretical approaches, represented by the 'phase of theories' which has appeared since 1998. This approach, which reflects that of the 1998 handbook, avoids the impression of technological determinism and provides an opportunity to focus on the phases of theory and technological developments. The book is divided into five sections. The first section examines key issues, and the second focuses on aspects of democracy. In the third section, the focus shifts towards structural conditions; the conditions that public administration has to meet in order to maintain its effectiveness and its legitimacy in the information age. Section four addresses some objects of implementation, like IT-inspired redesign, HRM and the phenomenon of Street Level Bureaucrats. Finally, the last section offers some concluding thoughts."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Constructive Phases of Theory Since 1998; title: 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.; title: 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.; title: 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.; title: 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.; title: Some Concluding Thoughts. Too Early To Say.