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The coming of age of e-government studies

The coming of age of e-government studies Information Polity 16 (2011) 1–3 DOI 10.3233/IP-2011-0227 IOS Press The earliest studies of the impact of information technology on government were undertaken in the United States in the 1970s by pioneering scholars such as John King, James Perry and Ken Kraemer. In the mid 1980s, the centre of gravity in this research moved to Europe with the founding of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization under the aegis of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) conference in 1986. Over the past twenty-five years, this study group has produced a rich vein of scholarship and, now renamed Permanent Study Group on e-Government, it continues to add new insights and ideas to this body of knowledge. The study of e-government requires many different perspectives and levels of study. We need to understand specific practices, but we should also understand how these practices relate to broader developments in government and society. We need strong empirical analyses, but we must not neglect the need to develop new theoretical perspectives on e-government. A variety of approaches is required to understand and debate the rapid evolution of ICT use in and by government. The papers in this issue consider e-government from a variety http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

The coming of age of e-government studies

Meijer, Albert; Bannister, Frank
Information Polity , Volume 16 (1) – Jan 1, 2011
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Information Polity 16 (2011) 1–3 DOI 10.3233/IP-2011-0227 IOS Press The earliest studies of the impact of information technology on government were undertaken in the United States in the 1970s by pioneering scholars such as John King, James Perry and Ken Kraemer. In the mid 1980s, the centre of gravity in this research moved to Europe with the founding of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization under the aegis of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) conference in 1986. Over the past twenty-five years, this study group has produced a rich vein of scholarship and, now renamed Permanent Study Group on e-Government, it continues to add new insights and ideas to this body of knowledge. The study of e-government requires many different perspectives and levels of study. We need to understand specific practices, but we should also understand how these practices relate to broader developments in government and society. We need strong empirical analyses, but we must not neglect the need to develop new theoretical perspectives on e-government. A variety of approaches is required to understand and debate the rapid evolution of ICT use in and by government. The papers in this issue consider e-government from a variety

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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