Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits GBP14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet gov[...]
This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood's classic work "The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First Century". Revised and updated throughout and drawing its examples from a wide range of places and contexts it includes substantially increased coverage of how government get[...]