Governing Electronically

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Examining E-government

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 3-16

   3. Conceptualising Technology and Government

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 17-32

   4. The Governmentality of E-government

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 33-44

3. Domains of E-government

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. E-Welfare

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 47-72

   3. E-Tax

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 73-94

   4. E-Health

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 95-111

4. Reconfigurations of Government

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Reconfiguring Public Administration

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 115-132

   3. Speed, Time and the Future

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 133-149

   4. Networks and Conditionality

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 150-166

   5. Risk and Targeted Government

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 167-190

   6. Complex Government

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 191-208

   7. Reconfiguring Power, Citizenship, Society

      • Paul Henman

      Pages 209-240

5. Back Matter

   Pages 241-271

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This book provides rare insights into the nature of contemporary, technologically-facilitated government. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrates that information technology is more than a tool for politicians and policy-makers. E-government has reconfigured public administration, policy, power and citizenship.

• citizenship
• e-government
• Government
• governmentality
• Information Technology (IT)
• Policy
• public administration

'Governing Electronically shows how e-government is transforming practices of government and citizenship today. At the same time, it insists that modern government was machinic long before the advent of computers. Capturing the novelty of e-government, while avoiding the hubris that plagues so much writing on the subject, this book will enlighten not just specialists but anyone interested in the genealogy of modern power.' - William Walters, Professor of Political Sociology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

'This book is important because it recognizes that technologies really matter in understanding governmental processes. Paul Henman demonstrates impressive expertise in both information technology and public administration in a major study which furthers our understanding of government in the digital era and highlights important shifts in policy and the changing nature of citizenship.' - Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute, UK

PAUL HENMAN is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Sociology. His research focuses on the nexus between information technologies, public administration and government policy processes. His previous book was Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance (edited with Menno Fenger).

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