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Digitalization and Public Sector Transformations

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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.

List of contents

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. 

About the author










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.


Summary

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 Transformationspushes 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.

Product details

Authors Morten Hjelholt, Jannic Schou, Jannick Schou
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2019
 
EAN 9783030094546
ISBN 978-3-0-3009454-6
No. of pages 122
Dimensions 149 mm x 212 mm x 9 mm
Weight 187 g
Illustrations XI, 122 p.
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology

C, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Medienwissenschaften, Sociology, Communication, Social Policy, Political Sociology, Social Sciences, Politics & government, auseinandersetzen, Mass Media, Central / national / federal government policies, Media Sociology, Regional, state and other local government

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