Politics, Governance and Technology : A Postmodern Narrative on the Virtual State

By: P. Frissen

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Interdependencies between politics, governance, and technology have created a "virtual state". Frissen (public administration, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) analyzes this development within the framework of postmodernism in order to illustrate the importance of adopting a postmodern perspective to understand the theory and practice of public administration and politics. He describes recent developments both within public administration and in postmodernism and uses examples from Dutch public administration.

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List of Tables	p. x
People, Places, Activities: an Acknowledgement	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
Politics, Administration, Technology: Connections	p. 1
Postmodernisation and Postmodernism	p. 4
The Narrative	p. 6
Public Administration	p. 9
Change, Experiment, Innovation: an Impression	p. 9
The New Governance: Characteristics	p. 11
The Antipode: Classical Governance	p. 13
The Tradition: Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Corporatism	p. 14
A Case: Independent Agencies	p. 16
Case 2	p. 20
Amendments to Bureaucracy	p. 23
Differentiating the Bureaucracy	p. 28
Reversing Bureaucracy	p. 30
Technology	p. 36
Informatisation: an Outline	p. 36
Informatisation: Developments	p. 38
Informatisation: Characteristics	p. 40
The Technological Debate: Positions	p. 42
Advanced Constructivism or Determinism?	p. 44
Networks, Connectivity and Virtual Reality	p. 46
Organisational Meaning	p. 50
Cultural Meaning	p. 56
Digital Ambiguities I	p. 61
Public Administration and Technology	p. 64
Informatised Bureaucracy: an Impression	p. 64
Characteristics of Informatisation	p. 70
Bureaucratisation and Technocratisation: the Perspective of Modernisation	p. 73
Informatisation, Change, Experiment and Innovation	p. 78
Transformations	p. 83
Case 3	p. 88
The Primacy of Politics	p. 91
Digital Ambiguities 2	p. 92
Politics	p. 95
Crisis and Continuity: Introduction	p. 95
Debate and Self-Reflection	p. 96
Restored Values	p. 101
Bureaucracy and Technocracy: the New Politics	p. 110
The Empty Place of Power I	p. 117
Political Strategies	p. 121
And yet ... the Great Silence	p. 126
The Social Decor: Modernisation and Postmodernisation	p. 128
Economic Transformations	p. 129
Organisational Changes	p. 132
Cultural Patterns	p. 136
Images	p. 141
Advanced Modernisation	p. 144
Nuances and Discontinuities	p. 151
Theoretical Intermezzo	p. 160
Postmodernisation, Postmodernity, Postmodernism	p. 161
We Postmodern Bourgeois Liberals	p. 164
Yuppies, Ephemera and Kitsch	p. 169
Hyperdifferentiation and Fragmentation	p. 175
Centre and Linearity	p. 180
Ambiguities	p. 187
Administration and Politics in Postmodern Cyberspace	p. 190
Technoculture	p. 191
Virtualisation	p. 195
Governance: Intelligence and Aesthetics	p. 202
Politics: Primacy or the End?	p. 207
Politics, Governance and Technology: Fragmentation and Connections	p. 213
Fragmenting and Connecting Governance	p. 219
Fragmentation and Contingency	p. 220
Autonomy and Horizontalisation	p. 224
Once again: Infrastructure	p. 229
Forms and Styles	p. 235
Postmodern Administrative Theory	p. 238
Politics without Properties	p. 244
Political Theory: a Modern Project	p. 245
Fragmentation, Contingency, Indifference	p. 249
The Apolitical Public Domain	p. 255
Postmodern Politics	p. 259
Political Postmodernism	p. 264
Digital Ambiguities 4: the Virtual State	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 272
Index	p. 292
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