The school system in England is undergoing rapid change. The Conservative/Liberal Democrat Government came to office in 2010 and its programme to create a school system comprised primarily of ‘independent publicly-funded schools’ (DfE 2010) through ‘academisation’ has proceeded apace (Woods and Simkins 2014). The intention is for the majority of schools to be academies which operate under direc...

*Assistant Professor, Health Politics, Department of Public Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. The endurance of a significant federal government role in health care into the late 1980s is remarkable, given the factors which seemed so likely to herald a new era of reduced central government involvement in health and countless other...

INTRODUCTION The main scope of this article is to present a heuristic model to deploy government-to-government initiatives effectively, as well as establish some key success factors for building governmentto-government (G2G) enterprises successfully. It also aims to show how public agencies themselves can benefit when they are electronically linked to others, thereby innovating and streamlining...

The Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) has implemented many statewide e-Government applications since the year 2000, when the Central Government of India enacted the IT Act of 2000 to provide legal recognition to electronic transactions. As a part of these initiatives, GoAP has set up an EProcurement Marketplace, linking government departments, agencies and local bodies with their vendors. The...

The transition process from E-government to e-democracy involves a number of complex government changes, among which one of the important reforms for China, lies in the fundamental transform of its public finance regime from a “secret tradition” which has been holding for centuries long, towards a modern democratic open process. From 2003, Chinese government decided to release the Audit Report ...

“E-Government” is a mission-critical visionary issue faced by the public sector as it pushed the delivery of public services to a new quality standard through a new set of delivery means. However, many of the stakeholders found it hard to fully embrace this new mode of service delivery. Through the provision of e-services, stakeholders of government services expect that e-services can improve t...