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E-Government 2003 (Paperback, New)
Mark A. Abramson, Therese L. Morin; Contributions by Genie N. L. Stowers, Diana Burley Gant, Jon P. Gant, …
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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.
Originally published in 1995.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
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