Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt

Digitalization and Public Sector Transformations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states. It dives into a case study of digitalization efforts in Denmark, fusing a national policy study with local institutional analysis. Denmark is often framed as an international forerunner in terms of digitalizing its public sector and thus provides a particularly instructive setting for understanding this new political instrument.

Advancing a cultural political economic approach, Schou and Hjelholt argue that digitalization is far from a quick technological fix. Instead, this area must be located against wider transformations within the political economy of capitalist states. Doing so, the book excavates the political roots of digitalization and reveals its institutional consequences. It shows how new relations are being formed between the state and its citizens.

Digitalization and Public Sector Transformations pushes for a renewed approach to governmental digitalization and will be of interest to scholars working in the intersections of critical political economy, state theory and policy studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-76290-6
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 13mm x 147mm x 217mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9783319762906
• ISBN-10: 3319762907
• Artikelnr.: 50749994

Autorenporträt

Jannick Schou is a PhD Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is part of the research project Data as Relation, funded by the Velux Foundations, and his current research focuses on digital citizenship, state spaces and cultural political economy.

Morten Hjelholt is Associate Professor and Head of DID-LAB at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD in political science and has published widely on politics and technology, most recently a book on digital citizenship.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. - Part I: Thinking State Transformations Through Cultural Political Economy. - 2. Cultural Political Economy. - 3. State Transformations: A CPE-perspective. - Part II: Landscapes of Digitalization. - 4. Rolling out Digitalization: Hegemonies, Policies and Governance Failures. - 5. Localizing Digitalization: New State Spaces and Local Resistances. - Part III: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Digitalization. - 6. Conclusion.