Government Publications: British Government Documents: A Guide to Their Use

Government documents librarianship: A guide for the neo-depository era

Modernisation of British Government

This article critically reviews the approach to evidence based policy-making (EBPM) advanced in the Labour government's modernisation agenda. The article contends that EBPM must be understood as a project focused on enhancing the techniques ofmanaging strategic policy-making as opposed to improving the capacities of the social sciences to influence the 'practices of democracy' as envisaged by L...

Pooling identity documents and their infrastructures in e-Government programs

British government scraps advice bodies

As part of its plans to reduce substantially public spending, the UK is disbanding many of the advisory bodies it has traditionally paid to provide independent advice on a wide range of issues. Amongst these, two have been key in providing scientific advice. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was established in 1991 as a source of expertise on assisted fertilisation and hum...

From e-government to social government: Twitter use by Korea's central government

Purpose – This study explores Twitter use by Korea’s central government by classifying the government’s Twitter-based networking strategies into government-to-citizen (G2C) and government-to-government (G2G) strategies. Design/methodology/approach – The study investigates the nature of social media interactions and networking strategies in the Korean government by extracting tweets, follower/fo...