Hybridising (e)-governance in India: the interplay of politics, technology and culture
This research, based on a neo-institutional model explores how a techno-managerial variety of e-governance reform as espoused by a transnational governance reform agenda affects the level of governance that hinges upon a dynamic relationship between state and society. Since such a research endeavour...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00014223 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-142231 Resolving-System, Volltext: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-142231 Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek, Volltext: http://d-nb.info/1177040255/34 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/14223 Resolving-System, Unbekannt: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00014223 
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| Author Notes: | submitted by: Bidisha Chaudhuri |
| Summary: | This research, based on a neo-institutional model explores how a techno-managerial variety of e-governance reform as espoused by a transnational governance reform agenda affects the level of governance that hinges upon a dynamic relationship between state and society. Since such a research endeavour focuses on the relationship between technology and governance, a social constructivism approach is deployed to explicate how this relationship is mediated through an array of political, social and cultural factors which further calls for a context-specific analysis of e-governance. Consequently, a detailed analysis of e-governance policies and practices in India along with a case study of the Common Services Centres (CSCs) Scheme under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government of India has been undertaken. Such analyses often denotes substantial gap between the macro-policies of reform and their actual impact which is further explained through the analytical category of hybridity. Hybridity shows how both policies and practices go through a process of hybridisation in negotiating the hiatus between ‘imported’ institutional set up and the ‘inherited’ social set up in the post-colonial context of India. Thus, the implication of e-governance in India goes much beyond in explaining (e) governance as a complex interplay between politics, technology and culture. Hence, this research transcends the specific context of India firstly in explicating the relationship between technology and governance and secondly, by devising a unique yet holistic methodological approach to address the entanglement of politics, technology and culture in the complex whole of governance. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00014223 |