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Syllabus | Professor Steven J. Jackson | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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This 1.5 credit course is the second in a two-part sequence exploring contemporary practices, challenges, and opportunities at the intersection of information technology and democratic governance. Whereas the first course focuses on tensions and innovations in democratic politics, this second course takes on emerging directions in democratic administration – and the shifting role of information technologies in supporting, transforming, and understanding these. The first part of the course explores the emerging role of IT in deliberative planning and policy-making processes. The second part of the course locates recent and emerging digital or e-government initiatives in historical, institutional, and comparative context. In the final weeks we’ll explore global dynamics and emerging directions in e-government research and practice, with particular attention to comparative evaluation and e-government initiatives in developing country contexts. Throughout, we will explore a range of local, national, and international cases in which new informational forms and practices have met with – and in some cases, begun to alter – the traditional art and practice of democratic governance.
Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow, and Jane Tinkler, Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, The State, and E-Government (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006).
Jane Fountain, Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (Brookings Institution Press: Washington, 2001).
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and David Lazer, eds. Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government (MIT Press:
Cambridge MA, 2007).
Darrell West, Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 2005).
These texts are in stock and available for purchase at reasonable price through all major online book sellers. Assigned sections from the Fountain, Mayer-Schonberger and Lazer, and West books will be made available in PDF form through the course Ctools site. A copy of the Dunleavy et. al. book will be placed on 4 hour reserve in the library.