Centralization or difusion? Two tales of online government
By: PELED, Alon
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2001Administration & Society 32, 6, p. 686-710Abstract: Can the new information and comunication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet change the power relationships within a bureaucracy? The dominant centralization approach argues that the existenting power elite manipulates computers to perpetuate and augement its power. Although not a coherent scholl of thought, other scholars suggest that technology can descentralize bureaucratic structures and diffuse bureaucratic power.The little-known history of the ICT revolution in the Israeli public sector suggests that the same empirical evidence can be woven into two starkly different historical narratives supporting each of these approaches depending on the kinds of questions scholars ask at the onset of their research
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Can the new information and comunication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet change the power relationships within a bureaucracy? The dominant centralization approach argues that the existenting power elite manipulates computers to perpetuate and augement its power. Although not a coherent scholl of thought, other scholars suggest that technology can descentralize bureaucratic structures and diffuse bureaucratic power.The little-known history of the ICT revolution in the Israeli public sector suggests that the same empirical evidence can be woven into two starkly different historical narratives supporting each of these approaches depending on the kinds of questions scholars ask at the onset of their research
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