Governance. com : Democracy in the Information Age

by Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla; Nye, Joseph S.; Visions of Governance in the 21st Century (Program)

• ISBN13: 9780815702160
• ISBN10: 0815702167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr

Summary

Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of community and different roles for government. This volume --developed by the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government --explores the ways in which the information revolution is changing our institutions of governance. Contributors examine the impact of technology on our basic institutions and processes of governance, including representation, community, politics, bureaucracy, and sovereignty. Their essays illuminate many of the promises and challenges of twenty-first century government.The contributors (all from Harvard unless otherwise indicated) include Joseph S. Nye Jr., Arthur Isak Applbaum, Dennis Thompson, William A. Galston (University of Maryland), L. Jean Camp, Pippa Norris, Anna Greenberg, Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, David C. King, Jane Fountain, Jerry Mechling, and Robert O. Keohane (Duke University).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Information Technology and Democratic Governance	1	(16)
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Failure in the Cybermarketplace of Ideas	17	(15)
Arthur Isak Applbaum
James Madison on Cyberdemocracy	32	(8)
Dennis Thompson
The Impact of the Internet on Civic Life: An Early Assessment	40	(19)
William A. Galston
Revolution, What Revolution? The Internet and U.S. Elections, 1992-2000	59	(22)
Pippa Norris
Political Campaigning on the Internet: Business as Usual?	81	(23)
Elaine Ciulla Kamarck
Catching Voters in the Web	104	(13)
David C. King
Toward a Theory of Federal Bureaucracy for the Twenty-First Century	117	(24)
Jane E. Fountain
Information Age Governance: Just the Start of Something Big?	141	(20)
Jerry Mechling
Power and Interdependence in the Information Age	161	(18)
Robert O. Keohane
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Contributors	179	(2)
Index	181