NOT SO ‘ARM'S LENGTH’: REINTERPRETING AGENCIES IN UK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

Lessons on Measuring e-Government Satisfaction: An Experience from Surveying Government Agencies in the UK

This paper summarises lessons learned in relation to an ongoing study to collect feedback on e-government systems that have been implemented to e-enable several core administrative functions in the UK as part of the I-MEET project. Previous work summarises findings from surveys of users of such systems and this paper reports on the experience of surveying providers. An extensive survey was desi...

G4c2c: Enabling Citizen Engagement at Arms’ Length from Government

The recognition that Web 2.0 applications and social media sites will strengthen and improve interaction between governments and citizens has resulted in a global push into new e-democracy or Government 2.0 spaces. These typically follow government-to-citizen (g2c) or citizen-to-citizen (c2c) models, but both these approaches are problematic: g2c is often concerned more with service delivery to...

Measuring Electronic Government Readiness in Public Agencies

Governments worldwide are encouraging public agencies to join e-government initiatives in order to provide better services to their citizens and businesses. Hence governments have a need to determine the readiness of individual public agencies to embark in such initiatives (e.g., in order to define policies and improvement programs in case they are not ready). In this paper, I establish this pr...

Austere or not? UK coalition government budgets and health inequalities.

Aaron Reeves, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee, Michael Marmot and David Stuckler Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 1UQ, UK Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA Department of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, WC1H 9SH, UK Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Corresponding author: ...

Integrity of scientific evaluations of government agencies.