What is it about?
In general, the results of the case study research presented in this book are useful as analytical material by providing a detailed review of various e-government, open data and e-participation projects; investigating political, economic, social and institutional challenges associated with their development; and offering a wide range of practical recommendations on how to overcome them, providing an interesting, unique and rich empirical basis for policy makers and practitioners, political scientists and journalists, as well as students of public administration and all those who seek to understand better an amazing multidimensional nature of e-government
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Why is it important?
In academic and professional literature, the phenomenon of digital government is usually analyzed in the context of the most developed and democratic nations of the world with a majority of case studies focused on Western countries, forgetting that it is a global trend. In contrast to the traditional tendencies in literature, the author of this book investigates the phenomena in an unusual context, resorting to the case study of a typical emerging and post-totalitarian country such as Kazakhstan and focusing on the analysis of the key drivers and challenges in the diffusion of the e-government movement to answer the ultimate question: whether it is harnessed by the members of civil society to promote civic engagement and new political communication.
Perspectives
Theoretical contribution of the work is a presentation of its arguably more universal research framework in comparison with previously used analytical approaches that could be valuable in investigating the promotion of the e-government phenomenon in other developing, transitional and post-totalitarian economies, enriching the existing theoretical models that are usually utilized in related case study research. In this regard, aspects of the analysis presented in the work such as a multidimensional approach that includes the investigation of the e-government phenomenon from a range of perspectives such as a country context analysis that studies the implications of the national geography, history, political and social systems, economy, public administration, telecommunication industry, nongovernmental sector, mass media and even foreign policy on the development of the phenomenon in Kazakhstan; a retrospective analysis that focuses on studying the gradual evolution and transformation of the e-government concept toward the open government domain of the idea; a content analysis that investigates the key e-government projects realized at the national level; and, finally, a policy analysis that speculates on the apparitional emergence of the open government and e-participation phenomena in Kazakhstan. These results could help researchers in investigating the development of the e-government institutions in other emerging and transitional countries in all their diversity.
Dr Maxat Kassen
Astana IT University
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This page is a summary of: E-Government in Kazakhstan, September 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315400587.
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