Public Administration in the Information Society: Essays on Risk and Trust

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Miriam Lips, John A. Taylor, Frank Bannister
IOS Press, 2005 - 151 pages
Risk and trust are interlocking issues, thrown into the social, political and managerial foreground as governments pursue their responses to the development of the information society. This book shows that flows of information deriving from ICT applications pervade public administration and the wider polity.
 

Contents

Editorial
1
Incorporating the voluntary sector in UK
25
Risk information sharing
51
Privacy surveillance and the balance of risk
65
Smartening up to risk in electronic government
81
Just how risky is online voting?
95
Who regulates and manages the Internet infrastructure? Democratic
117
Is the Internet becoming a threat to democracy?
141
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