eprintid: 14223
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 232
dir: disk0/00/01/42/23
datestamp: 2012-12-17 08:53:41
lastmod: 2012-12-18 08:56:40
status_changed: 2012-12-17 08:53:41
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Chaudhuri, Bidisha
title: Hybridising (e)-governance in India : the interplay of politics, technology and culture

subjects: 300
subjects: 320
subjects: 350
divisions: 180500
divisions: 180600
adv_faculty: af-18
cterms_swd: governance
cterms_swd: e-governance
cterms_swd: hybridity
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.
date: 2012-10-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00014223
ppn_swb: 1651932107
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-142231
date_accepted: 2012-12-10
advisor: HASH(0x564e154e0310)
language: eng
bibsort: CHAUDHURIBHYBRIDISIN20121009
full_text_status: public
citation:   Chaudhuri, Bidisha  (2012) Hybridising (e)-governance in India : the interplay of politics, technology and culture.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://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