Computing and public organizations
Public Administration Review - Special issue: public management information systems
Datawars: the politics of modeling in federal policymaking
Datawars: the politics of modeling in federal policymaking
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change
Reinventing Government in the Information Age
Reinventing Government in the Information Age
Social Science Computer Review - E-government
The Back-Office of E-government (Managing Information Domains as Political Economies)
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 5 - Volume 5
Electronic Business Invading the Public Sector: Considerations on Change and Design
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 5 - Volume 5
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
E-government in Australia: Promise and progress
Information Polity
A Review of: “Governance and Information Technology”
The Information Society
The Information Society - The Philosophy of Information, its Nature, and Future Developments
Evaluating and improving e-participation in Istanbul
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
Information systems in the public sector: The e-Government enactment framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Entanglements of participation, gender, power and knowledge in IT design
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
e-government... not e-governance... not e-democracy not now!: not ever?
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
EGOV'11 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic government
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Information Polity - ICT, public administration and democracy in the coming decade
Big questions of e-government research
Information Polity - ICT, public administration and democracy in the coming decade
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In general, rhetoric and myth play important roles in policymaking. Myths may inspire collective action but may also mystify and blur views on reality. In this article we identify, analyze, and reflect on the myths underlying the e-government programs of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands. We found that in all national policies myths of technological inevitability, a new and better government, rational information planning, and empowerment of the intelligent citizen can be discerned. Although the mobilizing powers of these myths are acknowledged, we conclude that existing empirical studies have generated little support for the inescapable telos of these myths, which makes canvas cleaning effects of e-government initiatives less likely.