"Dangerous Government": Info-Liberalism, Active Citizenship, and the Open Government Directive

Administration and Society

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 223-254

  Catlaw, Thomas J ^a   Sandberg, Billie ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active citizenship; entrepreneurialism; governance; governmentality; information; neoliberalism; Obama; open government; social government

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896270768     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399712461912     Document Type: Article

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