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Abstract
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.
Document type: | Dissertation |
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Supervisor: | Mitra, Prof. Subrata K. |
Date of thesis defense: | 10 December 2012 |
Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2012 08:53 |
Date: | 9 October 2012 |
Faculties / Institutes: | The Faculty of Economics and Social Studies > Institute of Political Science The Faculty of Economics and Social Studies > Institute of Sociology |
DDC-classification: | 300 Social sciences 320 Political science 350 Public administration |
Controlled Keywords: | governance, e-governance, hybridity |