The Tools of Government in the Information Age
- 2 September 2009
- book chapter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
This article studies the various tools of government in the Information Age. It identifies the three conventional approaches of the tools of government analysis: conceiving instruments as institutions, focusing on the politics of instrument selection, and cataloguing the tool kit in a more generic way than on the politics of instrument choice. It enumerates the three sets of issues related to the application of conventional analysis to Information-Age tools of government. Finally, the article tries to determine whether the Information Age has radically transformational or dynamic conservatism effects on the way government operates.Keywords
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