Digital Era Governance : IT Corporations, the State, and E-Government

The book shows how governments in some countries (USA, Canada, and Netherlands) have maintained much more effective policies than others (UK, Japan, and Australia). The previous era of 'new public management' is now dead, and a new paradigm of 'digital era governance' (DEG) increasingly defines the leading edge of modern Western public management. In DEG, governments try to reintegrate key role…