E-Governance Styles of Political Judgement in the Informaton Age Polity

by 6, Perri

• ISBN13: 9781403912466
• ISBN10: 1403912467
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The e-governance revolution is said to be changing everything, but will all the modelling tools, electronic meeting management systems and online consultations really change political judgement in policy formation? Using case studies from local and federal government in the US and Europe, Perri 6 examines these claims and presents a new theory of how policy makers use and reject information and do and don't trust each other with information in using the new tools, before analyzing the implications for democracy.

Author Biography

Perri 6 is a Senior Research Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes and Figures	viii
List of Abbreviations Used in the Text	x
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Introduction	1	(14)
What is e-governance?	1	(11)
Outline of this book	12	(3)
2 The Scope of E-governance	15	(9)
Defining e-governance	15	(2)
A brief history of e-governance	17	(4)
The menu of e-governance systems	21	(3)
3 Examples and Initiatives	24	(32)
Generating understandings	25	(8)
Collecting data	33	(2)
Organising and analysing data	35	(4)
Supporting communication	39	(4)
Modelling decisions and advising on possible consequences	43	(11)
Environments that provide integration and storage	54	(1)
Conclusion: overview of e-governance tools	54	(2)
4 The Forward March of E-governance Halted?	56	(20)
Why has take-up of more advanced e-governance tools been so slow?	56	(14)
The prospects for greater use of e-governance tools in the near future	70	(4)
Conclusion	74	(2)
5 What Difference could E-governance make? Fears, Aspirations and Theories	76	(10)
Rationalisation	76	(1)
The price of reason	77	(3)
Noise, fragmentation and the erosion of reason	80	(1)
Technology as used to reinforce institutional pressures	81	(5)
6 Conducting Policy Judgment through Information Technologies: Three Cases	86	(26)
Introduction	86	(1)
Baltimore city's CitiStat programme	87	(5)
Fairfax county	92	(8)
The US Federal Department of Energy	100	(9)
E-governance technologies, judgment and political organisation	109	(3)
7 Policy Making: the Work of Governance	112	(17)
What do policy makers do when they undertake governance? Answer - sense-making	112	(6)
Political judgment	118	(11)
8 The Organisation of Policy Makers and the Use of E-governance Tools	129	(28)
Four institutional settings in policy making	130	(15)
Institutional styles	145	(12)
9 Institutional Styles and E-governance Tools	157	(27)
Choosing tools	158	(10)
Political judgment: disciplines and decision making as a ritual process	168	(16)
10 Ways Forward	184	(25)
E-governance technologies and institutional styles	188	(5)
The challenge for policy makers: policy making, constitution and e-governance	193	(10)
The challenge for the information technology industry	203	(1)
E-governance and liberal democratic renewal	204	(5)
11 Conclusion: Technology, Institutions and Political Judgment	209	(3)
Notes	212	(5)
References	217	(17)
Index	234

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