Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second EditionChristopher M Shea Written by more than 60 contributors who depict the remarkable transformation of the public management profession by computers, this book presents the historical, institutional, legal, organizational, functional, policy, and theoretical background that constitutes IT literacy for public service. The book describes the application of IT to training, budgeting, and policy simulation at the federal level, and to community planning, community telecommunications, and welfare at the state level. Providing a broad and timely overview of IT as it applies to the public sector the book collects critical knowledge and delivers insight into contemporary uses of IT in the public sphere. |
Contents
BACKGROUND | 27 |
FOIA and the Emergence of Federal Information Policy in | 41 |
Is Technological Progress Social Progress? | 71 |
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH | 85 |
ContractingOut and Privatizing Public Sector Functions | 99 |
The Human Factor | 113 |
Issues in Public Information Systems | 127 |
The Impact of IT on Organization Performance in | 141 |
Disease Prevention | 345 |
FEDERAL | 363 |
Guidelines for PublicSector Systems Acquisition | 377 |
Public Finance Management Information Systems | 391 |
Information Systems and an Interdisciplinary Budget Model | 403 |
Budgetary Analysis Using Computer Tools | 429 |
Conceptual | 447 |
Microsimulations of Public Policy | 463 |
Intergovernmental Cooperation in the Development and | 165 |
National Differences in Constructing | 179 |
POLICY ISSUES | 197 |
Intellectual Property for Public Managers | 215 |
Security Issues for Automated Information Systems | 231 |
Citizen Participation and Direct Democracy Through Computer | 247 |
Which Countries Will Benefit? | 265 |
CASE STUDIES | 281 |
The Role of Computing Technology and the New York | 299 |
The Maine Education Information Partnership | 315 |
Issues | 331 |
STATE AND LOCAL | 473 |
Managing Knowledge | 489 |
A Methodology for Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Delivery | 501 |
Geographic Information Systems and the Public Manager | 535 |
The Use of Statistical Analysis Software in Public Management | 551 |
Putting Your Agency on the Web | 563 |
CONCLUSION | 571 |
Governmental Information Systems and Emerging | 577 |
Leading | 591 |
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Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second Edition Christopher M Shea,G. David Garson No preview available - 2005 |
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