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Governance. com : Democracy in the Information Age.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Brookings Institution Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815798613
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governance. comDDC classification:
  • 320.973/0285
LOC classification:
  • JK468.A8G643 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Information Technology and Democratic Governance -- Failure in the Cybermarketplace of Ideas -- James Madison on Cyberdemocracy -- The Impact of the Internet of Civic Life: An Early Assessment -- Revolution, What Revolution? The Internet and U.S. Elections, 1992-2000 -- Political Campaigning on the Internet: Business as Usual? -- Catching Voters in the Web -- Toward a Theory of Federal Bureaucracy for the Twenty-First Century -- Information Age Governance: Just the Start of Something Big? -- Power and Interdependence in the Information Age -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publication 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).
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Information Technology and Democratic Governance -- Failure in the Cybermarketplace of Ideas -- James Madison on Cyberdemocracy -- The Impact of the Internet of Civic Life: An Early Assessment -- Revolution, What Revolution? The Internet and U.S. Elections, 1992-2000 -- Political Campaigning on the Internet: Business as Usual? -- Catching Voters in the Web -- Toward a Theory of Federal Bureaucracy for the Twenty-First Century -- Information Age Governance: Just the Start of Something Big? -- Power and Interdependence in the Information Age -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publication 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).

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