Overview
- First major study of digitalization from a simultaneously historical, political sociological and multi-level perspective
- Goes beyond more general accounts of e-governance and data-driven governance by offering a both theoretically sound and empirically detailed argument
- Adds to international discussions on the crafting of the neoliberal state and contributes to larger international discussions on the re-articulation of contemporary welfare states
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Thinking State Transformations Through Cultural Political Economy
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Landscapes of Digitalization
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Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Digitalization
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states. It dives into a case study of digitalization efforts in Denmark, fusing a national policy study with local institutional analysis. Denmark is often framed as an international forerunner in terms of digitalizing its public sector and thus provides a particularly instructive setting for understanding this new political instrument.
Advancing a cultural political economic approach, Schou and Hjelholt argue that digitalization is far from a quick technological fix. Instead, this area must be located against wider transformations within the political economy of capitalist states. Doing so, the book excavates the political roots of digitalization and reveals its institutional consequences. It shows how new relations are being formed between the state and its citizens.
Digitalization and Public Sector Transformations pushes for a renewed approach to governmental digitalization and will be of interest to scholars working in the intersections of critical political economy, state theory and policy studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jannick Schou is a PhD Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is part of the research project Data as Relation, funded by the Velux Foundations, and his current research focuses on digital citizenship, state spaces and cultural political economy.
Morten Hjelholt is Associate Professor and Head of DID-LAB at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD in political science and has published widely on politics and technology, most recently a book on digital citizenship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digitalization and Public Sector Transformations
Authors: Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76291-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76290-6Published: 25 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09454-6Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76291-3Published: 13 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 122
Topics: Political Sociology, Media Sociology, Social Policy