eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics

eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics

Matti Malkia, Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Reijo Savolainen

Copyright: © 2004 |Pages: 336

ISBN13: 9781591401308|ISBN10: 1591401305|EISBN13: 9781591401315

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-130-8

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Malkia, Matti, et al., editors. eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics. IGI Global, 2004. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-130-8

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Malkia, M., Anttiroiko, A., & Savolainen, R. (Eds.). (2004). eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-130-8

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Malkia, Matti, Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, and Reijo Savolainen, eds. eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2004. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-130-8

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eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics is about transformation in government and governance due to the information society development. The book provides conceptual clarification of the e-transformation in governance, and presents empirical findings on the recent developments in Western countries. The book provides innovative and fresh views to recent developments and practices of e-governance.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Introduction

Chapter 1

eTransformation in Government, Politics and Society: Conceptual Framework and Introduction (pages 1-21)

Matti Malkia, Reijo Savolainen

In this chapter, authors present a common conceptual framework to understand the nature, causes and effects of electronic transformation (e-transformation) in government, politics and society. This is done first by identifying and...

Chapter 2

Introduction to Democratic e-Governance (pages 22-50)

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

The concept of governance has its roots in the changing role of the state and in a managerialist view of the operations of public administrations. These two discourses have been challenged by another approach, which could be called...

Involving Citizens

Chapter 3

Teledemocratic Innovations that Public Officials Ignore-At Our Great Peril (pages 51-66)

Ted Becker

In this chapter, the author tackles the major problems plaguing representative democracies around the world. Importantly, these problems originate from the alienation of citizens. The problems manifest themselves, for example, in the...

Chapter 4

Public Involvement in Public Administration in the Information Age: Speculations on the Effects of Technology (pages 67-84)

John Clayton Thomas

Public managers in Western democracies have felt growing pressures in recent decades to involve citizens more in the work of public administration, perhaps transforming what was once viewed as a largely solitary technical enterprise...

Chapter 5

ICTs and the Communicative Conditions for Democracy: A Local Experiment with Web-Mediated Civic Publicness (pages 85-109)

Seija Ridell

In this chapter, the contribution of new information and communication technologies to enhancing democracy at the local level is articulated as a practical and empirical question that pertains to the locally established patterns and...

Restructuring Public Administration

Chapter 6

Public Information for a Democratic Society: Instilling Public Trust Through Greater Collaboration with Citizens (pages 110-130)

Christa Daryl Slaton, Jeremy L. Arthur

The question of “how wide to open the window” to hear citizen feedback and let them influence local politics is highly topical. The authors provide an informative introduction to the prerequisites for collaboration between citizens...

Chapter 7

Bureaucratic Discretion and Deliberative Democracy (pages 131-149)

Christian Hunold, B. Guy Peter

Administrative discretion is both a strength and a weakness of contemporary political systems. Governments could not govern without the capacity to fill in legislation with detailed administrative regulations. Further, these...

Chapter 8

The Moderator in Government-Initiated Internet Discussions: Facilitator or Source of Bias? (pages 150-168)

Arthur R. Edwards

The importance of moderation of online policy discussions is widely recognized. However, much less attention has been paid to the social interface in which moderators perform their tasks. In many cases, moderators have to cooperate...

Building Urban and Regional Communities

Chapter 9

Metropolitan Governance and Telecommunications Policy: Changing Perceptions of Place and Local Governance in the Information Society (pages 169-196)

Roger Richman

This chapter explores some implications of the emerging telecommunications networks for urban areas and concludes that new networks will do more to support metropolitan governance than to reinforce localism within traditional city...

Chapter 10

Building Regional Communities in an Information Age: The Case of Greater Western Sydney (pages 197-215)

Kevin Sproats, Trevor Cairney, David Hegarty

Twelve local government authorities constitute Greater Western Sydney, the fastest growing and most diverse metropolitan region in Australia. With a regional population of 1.5 million, it has been described as the dynamic economic...

Chapter 11

Responding to the Information Needs of Citizens in an Open Society: The Role of Smart Communities (pages 216-234)

Roger W. Caves

The use of ICTs in community development areas has increased over the past 10 years. This chapter examines how the “Smart Community” concept can help areas of various sizes accomplish a variety of local and regional development...

Citizen Access to Information in the Information Age

Chapter 12

What's New? Perspectives on Freedom of Information and the Internet (pages 235-254)

Sonja Bugdahn

Critics of the notion or concept of “information society” have often made claims to put the new ICTs into a more historical and institutional context. As a response, in this chapter, the more than 200-year-old right of access to...

Chapter 13

Bridging the Digital Divide: Developments in Scotland (pages 255-271)

Anna Malina, Ann Macintosh

Examined in this chapter is action to address the “digital divide,” and possibilities for extending e-democracy to support wider democratic participation using ICT in local communities. We describe current approaches in Scotland for...

Chapter 14

Globalization, Citizenship and New Information Technologies: From the MAI to Seattle (pages 272-307)

Peter J. Smith, Elizabeth Smythe

This chapter examines how information technologies have been used by non-governmental organizations to contest economic globalization. The chapter uses as case studies the failed attempt to negotiate the Multilateral Agreement on...

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