Technological Change: A Central yet Neglected Feature of Public Administration

• Authors: Christopher Pollitt
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This overview paper has two aims. The first is to indicate that technological change has been a somewhat neglected, or at the least esoteric, topic within the academic field of public administration. The second is to argue that this neglect is damaging for the PA community, because technological change is actually fundamental to developments in public administration, in a variety of ways.In order to demonstrate these two points, a wide range of literature is called upon, across many sectors.In conclusion a framework is offered to encourage the kinds of analysis of technological change that should ensure strong links with the central concerns of public administration scholarship.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 31-53

Dates

published

2010-12-01

online

2011-01-28

Contributors

author

Christopher Pollitt

• Institute of Public Management, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10110-010-0003-z