E-Governance Styles of Political Judgement in

The e-governance revolution is said to be changing everything, but will all the modelling tools, electronic meeting management systems and online consultations really change political judgement in policy formation? Using case studies from local and federal government in the US and Europe, Perri 6 examines these claims and presents a new theory of how policy makers use and reject information and do and don't trust each other with information in using the new tools, before analyzing the implications for democracy.

Perri 6 is a Senior Research Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham.

List of Boxes and Figures

viii

List of Abbreviations Used in the Text

x

Acknowledgements

xi

1 Introduction

1

(14)

What is e-governance?

1

(11)

Outline of this book

12

(3)

2 The Scope of E-governance

15

(9)

Defining e-governance

15

(2)

A brief history of e-governance

17

(4)

The menu of e-governance systems

21

(3)

3 Examples and Initiatives

24

(32)

Generating understandings

25

(8)

Collecting data

33

(2)

Organising and analysing data

35

(4)

Supporting communication

39

(4)

Modelling decisions and advising on possible consequences

43

(11)

Environments that provide integration and storage

54

(1)

Conclusion: overview of e-governance tools

54

(2)

4 The Forward March of E-governance Halted?

56

(20)

Why has take-up of more advanced e-governance tools been so slow?

56

(14)

The prospects for greater use of e-governance tools in the near future

70

(4)

Conclusion

74

(2)

5 What Difference could E-governance make? Fears, Aspirations and Theories

76

(10)

Rationalisation

76

(1)

The price of reason

77

(3)

Noise, fragmentation and the erosion of reason

80

(1)

Technology as used to reinforce institutional pressures

81

(5)

6 Conducting Policy Judgment through Information Technologies: Three Cases

86

(26)

Introduction

86

(1)

Baltimore city's CitiStat programme

87

(5)

Fairfax county

92

(8)

The US Federal Department of Energy

100

(9)

E-governance technologies, judgment and political organisation

109

(3)

7 Policy Making: the Work of Governance

112

(17)

What do policy makers do when they undertake governance? Answer - sense-making

112

(6)

Political judgment

118

(11)

8 The Organisation of Policy Makers and the Use of E-governance Tools

129

(28)

Four institutional settings in policy making

130

(15)

Institutional styles

145

(12)

9 Institutional Styles and E-governance Tools

157

(27)

Choosing tools

158

(10)

Political judgment: disciplines and decision making as a ritual process

168

(16)

10 Ways Forward

184

(25)

E-governance technologies and institutional styles

188

(5)

The challenge for policy makers: policy making, constitution and e-governance

193

(10)

The challenge for the information technology industry

203

(1)

E-governance and liberal democratic renewal

204

(5)

11 Conclusion: Technology, Institutions and Political Judgment

209

(3)

Notes

212

(5)

References

217

(17)

Index

234

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