Digital Era Governance
IT Corporations, the State, and e-Government
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 June 2008
- ISBN 9780199547005
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 233x157x17 mm
- Weight 489 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures and tables 0
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Short description:
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.
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Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector IT operations.
Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer services providers to run large, long-run contracts to provide IT. Some of the biggest companies in the world (IBM, EDS, Lockheed Martin, etc) have made this a core market. The book shows how governments in some countries (the USA, Canada and Netherlands) have maintained much more effective policies than others (in the UK, Japan and Australia). It shows how public managers need to retain and develop their own IT expertise and to carefully maintain well-contested markets if they are to deliver value for money in their dealings with the very powerful global IT industry.
This book describes how a critical aspect of the modern state is managed, or in some cases mismanaged. It will be vital reading for public managers, IT professionals, and business executives alike, as well as for students of modern government, business, and information studies.
Review from previous edition As a work of both theory and empirical analysis, the book deserves the highest possible plaudits...Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Information Technology and Public Policymaking
The Theory of Modern Bureaucracy and the Neglected Role of IT
Acquiring and Managing Government IT
The Comparative Performance of Government IT
Explaining Performance I: Government Institutions, New Public Management and Bureaucratic Cultures
Explaining Performance II: Competitive Tension and the Power of the IT Industry
Taxation: Re-Modernizing Legacy IT and Getting Taxpayers Online
Social Security: Managing Mass Payment and Responding to Welfare State Change
Immigration: Technology Changes and Adminstrative Renewal
New Public Management is Dead - Long Live Digital Era Governance
Afterword: Looking Ahead on Technology Trends, Industry Organization, and Government IT
