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- Systematically analyses the advances made and implications of ICTs for electronic government (e-government) and electronic democracy
- Investigates ICTs increasingly influential role in shaping social relationships, political power, democratic government, and the public-services sector across the globe
- Puts into context the use of new information technology within public administration in the advanced industrialized democracies?
Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT, volume 21)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Trends and Theoretical Context
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Front Matter
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Comparative Analysis of Local E-Government Functionality
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The Internet and related technologies have dramatically changed the way we live, work, socialize, and even topple national governments. As the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive across societies, we find more often that governments adopt Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) as part of their toolbox for facilitating efficient and citizen-oriented service delivery at all levels of government. Local governments across the major industrialized democracies have not been an exception to this trend and have set sail into the age of digital government. Closest to their citizens, towns and cities have adopted ICTs to facilitate electronic government (e-government). While research on local e-government functionality in terms of information dissemination, service delivery, and citizen engagement continues at an impressive empirical and methodological pace, gaps in our knowledge remain. Cross-national comparative research on local e-government that covers a wide range of municipalities in combination with in-depth case study analyses is lacking. Informed by a comparative case study approach, this book seeks to narrow that gap and offer practical policy solutions to facilitate local e-government. We do so by pursuing both a macro and micro perspective of e-government functionality in the federal republics of Germany and the United States and unitary France and Japan. The macro perspective focuses on the state and scope of e-government functionality across a large number of randomly selected municipalities of all sizes in these advanced industrialized countries. Based on a small sample of case studies, the micro perspective analyzes the successful implementation of e-government in Seattle (United States), Nuremberg (Germany), Bordeaux (France), and Shizuoka City (Japan).
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of History and Government, Cameron University, Lawton, USA
Tony E. Wohlers
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Carroll University Scholars Program, Carroll University, Waukesha, USA
Lynne Louise Bernier
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Setting Sail into the Age of Digital Local Government
Book Subtitle: Trends and Best Practices
Authors: Tony E. Wohlers, Lynne Louise Bernier
Series Title: Public Administration and Information Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7665-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7663-5Published: 12 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7945-5Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7665-9Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2512-1812
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1839
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 123
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Administration, Innovation/Technology Management, Comparative Politics