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E‐GOVERNANCE AS STRATEGY OF PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM: PECULIARITY OF JAPANESE IT POLICY AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL ORIGIN
Author(s) -
Kudo Hiroko
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
financial accountability and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1468-0408
pISSN - 0267-4424
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2009.00491.x
Subject(s) - accountability , corporate governance , public sector , public administration , public policy , politics , government (linguistics) , new public management , order (exchange) , business , political science , economics , economic growth , finance , linguistics , philosophy , law
As the cases of public sector reform and e‐governance projects have shown, e‐governance can play a role in public sector reform. This paper describes Japanese e‐governance policy and its status, focusing on the issues affecting the government and the public. Japan has implemented a series of political and administrative reforms in order to improve accountability. NPM reforms utilize various strategies to manage public policies, and e‐governance is a public policy that directly affects other policies and brings about change. Its characteristics as public policy are different from those of other policies, especially in relation to public accountability.