title: Hybridising (e)-governance in India : the interplay of politics, technology and culture  
creator: Chaudhuri, Bidisha
subject: 300
subject: 300 Social sciences
subject: 320
subject: 320 Political science
subject: 350
subject: 350 Public administration
description: 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.
date: 2012-10-09
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14223/1/PhD_HYBRIDISING%20%28E%29GOVERNANCE%20IN%20INDIA_THE%20INTERPLAY%20OF%20POLITICS%2C%20TECHNOLOGY%20AND%20CULTURE_BIDISHA%20CHAUDHURI.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00014223
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-142231
identifier:   Chaudhuri, Bidisha  (2012) Hybridising (e)-governance in India : the interplay of politics, technology and culture.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14223/
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language: eng