TY  - GEN
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14223/
Y1  - 2012/10/09/
TI  - Hybridising (e)-governance in India : the interplay of politics, technology and culture

N2  - 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.
AV  - public
A1  - Chaudhuri, Bidisha
ID  - heidok14223
ER  -