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At the end of this course, students will
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have a comprehensive knowledge on normative concepts of digital government (e-government, open government, smart government);
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be able to assess governments' digitalization strategies from a comparative perspective;
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have gained a realistic picture of the effect of digitalization on all stages of policymaking;
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be able to apply theories of policy analysis to empirical cases of digitalization in practice.
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This course will cover potential and known effects of digitalization on the internal and external governance of governments and public services. Governments and public sectors worldwide are not only adapting novel information and communication technologies (ICT), such as tools of e-participation or big data analytics via machine learning, but they are also crucial actors in shaping governance structures and processes in the digital age. Digitalization can thus have far-reaching consequences for democracy and the effectiveness of services. Although new technologies are often presented as an external and neutral force, how they are implemented often reflects political, social and moral choices. In this course, we will
1) discuss different perspectives on digitalization in the public sector and hereby cover relevant images of digital government (i.e. e-government, open and smart government), 2) reflect on the formulation of digitalization strategies of public administrations from a comparative perspective as well as 3) analyse the effects of digitalization on policymaking throughout the policy cycle.
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