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  title info:
    title: From Machinery to Mobility
    sub title: Government and Democracy in a Participative Age
  name:
    name part: Roy, Jeffrey.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 132 p. online resource.
  abstract: The Westminster-stylized model of Parliamentary democratic politics and public service accountability is increasingly out of step with the realities of today’s digitally and socially networked era. This book explores the reconfiguration of democratic and managerial governance within democratic societies due to the advent of technological mobility. More specifically, the traditional public sector prism of organizational and accountability – denoted as ‘machinery of government’, is increasingly strained in an era characterized by smart devices, social media, and cloud computing. This book examines the roots and implications of the tensions between machinery and mobility and the sorts of investments and initiatives that have been undertaken by governments around the world as well as their appropriateness and relative impacts. This book also examines the prospects for holistic adaptation of democratic and managerial systems going forward, identifying the most crucial directions and determinants for improving public sector performance in terms of outcomes, accountability, and agility. Accordingly, the ultimate aim of this initiative is to contribute to the formation of intellectual foundations for more systemic reforms of public sector governance in Canada and elsewhere, and to offer forward-looking trajectories for government adaptation in shifting from a traditional prism of ‘machinery’ to new organizational and institutional arrangements better suited for an era of 'mobility'.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Bureaucracy versus Mobility -- Cognition and Place -- Openness and Ownership -- Cyber-Security.- Payments and Privacy -- Deliberation and Engagement.- Austerity and Federalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
  note: by Jeffrey Roy.
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Comparative politics
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Public Administration
  subject:
    topic: Innovation/Technology Management
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Politics
  classification: JF20-2112
  classification: JF1315.2-2112
  classification: 351
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      title: Springer eBooks
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