Governance.com
Democracy in the Information Age
Published on 1. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-0-8157-0217-7 (ISBN)
Description
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).
Reviews / Votes
"'Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age' is a selection of impressive scholarly essays focusing how leaps and bounds in modern technology and the Internet are directly affecting American governmental policy and performance.... 'Governance.com' offers an informed and informative look into the near future, and where the democratization of information is ultimately leading." ?Thomas G. Whelan, Midwest Book Review|"One of the more robust contributions in the book is provided by William Galston's analysis of the impact of the internet on civic life." ?Colin J. Bennett, University of Victoria, Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
343 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-0217-7 (9780815702177)
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E-Book
05/2004
1st Edition
Brookings Institution
€20.99
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Persons
Elaine Ciulla Kamarck is director of the Visions of Governance for the 21st Century project and the Innovations in American Government program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She served as senior policy advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, and was instrumental in creating the National Performance Review, a White House policy council to reinvent government. Joseph S. Nye Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and chair of the National Intelligence Council.