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This work provides in-depth case studies of the state of e-government today. The book chronicles the early days of e-government and presents a collective snapshot in time as to where governments - at the federal, state and local levels - are today as they continue their march toward e-government. Editors Abramson and Morin present a comprehensive progress report on e-government before a distinguished list of contributors discuss such varied topics as the quality of federal websites, technology and innovation in the State Department, online voting and the public-sector information security. Through grants for research and forms, the IBM Endowment for the Business of Government stimulates research and facilitates discussion on new approaches to improving the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, local and international levels.
Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency practices instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure, Secure Flight, American Red Cross, Google, and Facebook. A series of themed chapters draw on the material and provide cross-case analysis. The volume ends with a chapter on policy implications.
The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all levels of government with urgent time frames and extensive accountability requirements. While ARRA passed most tests with comparatively little mismanagement or fraud, negative public and media perceptions of the initiative deprived the president of political credit. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews and nationwide field research, Governing under Stress examines a range of ARRA stimulus programs to analyze the fraught politics, complex implementation, and impact of the legislation. Essays from public administration scholars use ARRA to study how to implement large federal programs in our modern era of indirect, networked governance. Throughout, the contributors present potent insights into the most pressing challenges facing public policy and management, and they uncover important lessons about policy instruments and networks, the effects of transparency and accountability, and the successes and failures of different types of government intervention.
The underappreciated but surprisingly successful implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) helped rescue the economy during the Great Recession and represented one of the most important achievements of the Obama presidency. It tested all levels of government with urgent time frames and extensive accountability requirements. While ARRA passed most tests with comparatively little mismanagement or fraud, negative public and media perceptions of the initiative deprived the president of political credit. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews and nationwide field research, Governing under Stress examines a range of ARRA stimulus programs to analyze the fraught politics, complex implementation, and impact of the legislation. Essays from public administration scholars use ARRA to study how to implement large federal programs in our modern era of indirect, networked governance. Throughout, the contributors present potent insights into the most pressing challenges facing public policy and management, and they uncover important lessons about policy instruments and networks, the effects of transparency and accountability, and the successes and failures of different types of government intervention.
While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated
rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and
incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile
privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional
policy making in three key areas: computerized databases,
wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues,
legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting
those with a vested interest in new technology over those
advocating privacy protection. "Legislating Privacy" explores the
dynamics of congressional policy formulation and traces the limited
response of legislators to the concept of privacy as a fundamental
individual right. According to Regan, we will need an expanded
understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achieve
greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and
genetic testing. Specifically, she argues that a recognition of the
social importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the
policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future
congressional activity on privacy issues.
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