{"product_id":"9781489976635","title":"Public Administration and Information Technology: Trends and Best Practices","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePublic Administration and Information Technology: Trends and Best Practices\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWohlers, Tony E.; Bernier, Lynne Louise\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Internet and related technologies have\ndramatically changed the way we live, work, socialize, and even topple national\ngovernments. As the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive across societies,\nwe find more often that governments adopt Information Communication\nTechnologies (ICTs) as part of their toolbox for facilitating efficient and\ncitizen-oriented service delivery at all levels of government. Local governments\nacross the major industrialized democracies have not been an exception to this\ntrend and have set sail into the age of digital government. Closest to their\ncitizens, towns and cities have adopted ICTs to facilitate electronic\ngovernment (e-government). While research on local e-government functionality\nin terms of information dissemination, service delivery, and citizen engagement\ncontinues at an impressive empirical and methodological pace, gaps in our\nknowledge remain. Cross-national comparative research on local e-government\nthat covers a wide range of municipalities in combination with in-depth case\nstudy analyses is lacking. Informed by a comparative case study approach, this\nbook seeks to narrow that gap and offer practical policy solutions to\nfacilitate local e-government. We do so by pursuing both a macro and micro\nperspective of e-government functionality in the federal republics of Germany\nand the United States and unitary France and Japan. The macro perspective\nfocuses on the state and scope of e-government functionality\nacross a large number of randomly selected municipalities of all sizes in these\nadvanced industrialized countries. Based on a small sample of case studies, the\nmicro perspective analyzes the successful implementation of e-government in\nSeattle (United States), Nuremberg (Germany), Bordeaux (France), and Shizuoka City\n(Japan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2015-12-12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781489976635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4899-7665-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 123\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47673741508748,"sku":"9781489976635","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781489976635.jpg?v=1776530485","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781489976635","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}