Opening the Government of Canada

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age

AvAmanda Clarke

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Opening the Government of Canada presents a compelling case for the importance of a more open model of governance in the digital age – but a model that also continues to uphold democratic principles at the heart of the Westminster system. Drawing on interviews with public officials and extensive analysis of government documents and social media accounts, Clarke details the untold story of the Canadian federal bureaucracy's efforts to adapt to new digital pressures from the mid-2000s onward. This book argues that the bureaucracy's tradition of closed government, fuelled by today's antagonistic political communications culture, is at odds with evolving citizen expectations and new digital policy tools, including social media, crowdsourcing, and open data. Striking a balance between reform and tradition, Opening the Government of Canada concludes with a series of pragmatic recommendations that lay out a roadmap for building a democratically robust, digital-era federal government.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Communication, Strategy, and Politics
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774836937

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Amanda Clarke is an assistant professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration. Prior to joining Carleton, Clarke completed a doctorate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau scholar, a Clarendon Press scholar, and as a fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is published in Canadian Public Administration, Governance and Policy and Internet and is co-editor of Issues in Canadian Governance. You can find her work at www.aclarke.ca and on Twitter @ae_clarke.

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Amanda Clarke's Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures.- Andrea Rounce (Canadian Journal of Political Science) The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands.- Alex Marland (The Hill Times)

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1 Opening Government in the Digital Age2 Canada's Closed Government3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada4 Stephen Harper's Open(ish) Government Initiative5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy7 The Future of Digital GovernmentAppendix A: Interview IndexNotes; References; Index

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