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Secrecy Versus Openness: Democratic Adaptation in a Web 2.0 Era

In: Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance

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  • Jeffrey Roy

    (Dalhousie University)

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The future of government and democracy arguably hinges upon successful adaptation within an increasingly networked environment both digitally and socially. The purpose of this chapter is two-fold; first, to sketch out the main structural and cultural tension points between the Westminster model of democratic governance and emerging contours of Web-2.0 stylized reforms associated with likeminded discussions of Gov 2.0; and second, to examine recent reforms in Canada and elsewhere and their potential to resolve such tensions. The overarching challenge of social media and democratic governance is shown to be the need to overcome the inertia of secrecy and to foster new and more flexible information, knowledge, and learning architectures for the public sector as a whole.

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  • Jeffrey Roy, 2012. "Secrecy Versus Openness: Democratic Adaptation in a Web 2.0 Era," Public Administration and Information Technology, in: Christopher G. Reddick & Stephen K. Aikins (ed.), Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 249-257, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:paitcp:978-1-4614-1448-3_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1448-3_16
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