SOG member Christopher Pollitt of the Public Management Institute at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is co-author, with Geert Bouckaert, of a new book from Edward Elgar Press: Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management. The book provides a long-term view of policy developments in major public services in England and Belgium over the last half-century. John Halligan says that the book contains “a pioneering and profound analysis that few current books in public policy and management can equal.” Download the flyer.
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Governance: New year, new design, new commentary on e-governance
Published January 1, 2010 Current issue , commentary Leave a CommentTags: commentary, democracy, e-governance, information technology, Paul Starr
The new design includes a new feature at the start of each issue: a short commentary by a leading scholar or policymaker on a critical question of governance. The first commentary is by Paul Starr, Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
“The fundamental problems of democracy are not susceptible to technological solutions,” says Starr. In the current environment, “it will be a struggle just to maintain some of the minimal conditions of political accountability that democracy requires.” Download Professor Starr’s commentary, “The Liberal State in a Digital World,” for free.