'Experts' and e-government

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-127

  Horrocks, Ivan ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E government; IT and management consultants; Policy making; Power; The politics of technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449088353     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802109030     Document Type: Article

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