Author: Victor Bekkers
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: law, electronic, politics, commerce, new, highways, emerging, challenges
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1995-12-06
List price: $147.50
ISBN-10: 9041101837
ISBN-13: 9789041101839

Electronic highways are emerging; the information society is in the making. Who is building the infrastructure, and whose interests are to be taken into account in establishing the electronic superhighway? How will it affect democracy, political debate, and public administration? What applications can we expect, and what changes should be made in European law in reaction to such new technological developments as interactive multimedia or the globalization of the telecommunications infrastructure? We can look forward to consumer-oriented electronic services, but can we retain our priva

Authors:IOS Press, V. J. J. M. Bekkers,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: public, innovation, sector, modernization, administration, driven, assessing, communication, technology, information, ict
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $183.00
ISBN-10: 1586036262
ISBN-13: 9781586036263

The modernization of public administration is a recurring theme on the political and public agenda in many countries. Modernization presupposes innovation. However, is an innovative public administration a contradiction in terminis? If we look at the practice of public administration, and evaluate -from an evolutionary perspective - how public administration has transformed itself during the last 40 years, we actually see a variety of radical and incremental changes. Hence, innovation does take place. This book clearly demonstrates how public administration organizations try to adapt to changi

Author: Rudi Bekkers
Publisher: Artech House
Keywords: tetra, amp, ermes, gsm, umts, telecommunications, standards, mobile
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2001-09-15
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 1580532500
ISBN-13: 9781580532501

This book examines the development and adoption trajectories of major standards, such as UMTS, GSM, ERMES and TETRA, which are of significant interest to telecommunications professionals worldwide. Easily understandable, even without a technical background, it presents a framework that analyzes the factors that infuenced each standard’s level of success, and includes the most comprehensive case studies on these standards.

Authors:Victor Bekkers, Geske Dijkstra, Arthur Edwards, Menno
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: governance, democratic, practices, legitimacy, deficit, assessing
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2007-07-23
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754649830
ISBN-13: 9780754649830

It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policymaking, a transformation which has been labeled as a change from ’government’ to ’governance’. Governance is used to describe policymaking and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical, network like structure through negotiation and cooperation between public and private actors at one or across different political levels. In particular, the volume: combines empirical analysis and normative assessment of governance practices; provides a systematic approach based