- Journal Details
- Format
- Journal
- eISSN
- 1338-4309
- ISSN
- 1337-9038
- First Published
- 03 Aug 2009
- Publication timeframe
- 2 times per year
- Languages
- English
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- Open Access
Technological Change: A Central yet Neglected Feature of Public Administration
Page range: 31 - 53
Abstract
This overview paper has two aims. The first is to indicate that technological change has been a somewhat neglected, or at the least esoteric, topic within the academic field of public administration. The second is to argue that this neglect is damaging for the PA community, because technological change is actually fundamental to developments in public administration, in a variety of ways.
In order to demonstrate these two points, a wide range of literature is called upon, across many sectors.
In conclusion a framework is offered to encourage the kinds of analysis of technological change that should ensure strong links with the central concerns of public administration scholarship.
- Open Access
Nanotechnology, Governance and Public Management: A Techno-Economic Paradigms Perspective
Page range: 69 - 85
Abstract
This essay investigates, from the perspective of Carlota Perez' theory of Techno-Economic Paradigms, the possible impact of a specific technology, nanotechnology, on governance and public management. Based on this example, it argues, i.a., that techno-economic paradigms do come with their own optimal (and less optimal) forms of governance and indeed public management, but that both the attitude towards the state and thus public management and the need for good public policy and its institutional prerequisites are a matter of the period within the paradigm, not of the paradigm itself.