Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy by Akhlaque Haque - 9780817359881

Surveillance, Transparency, and DemocracyPublic Administration in the Information Age\nAuthor(s): Akhlaque Haque\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359881, 978-0817359881\nSynopsis\nInvestigates public administration??s increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices.\n\n In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology (IT) enables sophisticated and well-intentioned public services that nevertheless risk deforming public policy decision-making and sees a contradiction inherent in a public that .