Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits GBP14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their ...
This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood's classic work "The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First Century". Revised and updated throughout and drawing its examples from a wide range of places and contexts it includes substantially increased coverage of how government gets information and an assessment of how the tools ...
Information technology has often been largely ignored in approaches to the study of government. This ground-breaking study establishes IT as a vital feature of public administration, exploring in detail the real impact of IT on the central governments of Britain and America over the last 20 years. It reveals the hidden world of two governments' ...
Is Britain "turning Jaanese"? By the time of the next election, the Conservatives will have been in power for nearly 20 years. The opposition appears powerless. Important political debates - over Europe, economic policy and "the new world order" - take place within the ruling Conservative Party. Has Britain - like Japan - developed a dominant ...
This collection brings together leading political scientists in order to address the challenges faced by democracy in the 21st century. The contributors tackle the changing nature of democratic ideas, in particular equality in society and the satisfaction of citizens. They examine changing patterns of political involvement, from voting to new ...
An objective analysis of the Jenkins Report on the reform of the voting system, this work analyses where the debate has got to and predicts what action the Government will take.
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