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020			_a978-1-60750-952-3-i
020			_a9789051993950
020			_a9781607509523
024	7		_a10.3233/978-1-60750-952-3-i _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
042			_adc
100	1		_aW.B.H.J. van de Donk (ed.) _4auth
700	1		_aI.Th.M. Snellen (ed.) _4auth
245	1	0	_aPublic Administration in an Information Age - A Handbook
260			_bIOS Press _c1998
300			_a1 electronic resource (600 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_a"This book is a joint effort of researchers who have been involved in research-projects and programmes that have been trying to chart and reflect upon the implications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Administration. Since the 1950s, computers had largely facilitated and the transformation of the minimal 'Night-Watch-state' into the modern 'Welfare-state', through their contribution to their effectivity, productivity and efficiency. In most Handbooks of Public Administration, computers are seen as neutral instruments and, most of the time, the role of computer technologies in the transformation of public administration is completely neglected. This 'deafening silence' is a great contrast with the way ICT's are actually changing public administration. The faster the developments in a field of study are, the more difficult it is to let the theories, related to that field of study, mature. In such circumstances, most statements will remain provisional and context-dependent. 25 years of research in Irvine (California) and Kassel (Germany) and more than 10 years of research in Tilburg/Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and about seven years of research in Glasgow/Nottingham (the United Kingdom) nonetheless enables the presentation of a modest image of public administration as it is entering the information age. Researchers in each of these groups have, nevertheless, not stopped trying to phrase theories about the implications of informatization for public administration with a more or less larges scope, that are robust in different contexts and over longer periods of time. These results and theories, covering a broad set of elements of the body of knowledge of public administration, are presented in this volume. As the authors try to demonstrate in this book, informatization developments in public administration do not only challenge the existing body of knowledge of the public administration discipline, but they are also opening up new perspectives and paradigms for the study of public administration."
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
653			_apublic administration
653			_aICT
653			_awelfare-state
653			_ainformatization
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856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57339 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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