This book provides rare insights into the nature of contemporary, technologically-facilitated government. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrates that information technology is more than a tool for politicians and policy-makers. E-government has reconfigured public administration, policy, power and citizenship.

PAUL HENMAN is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Sociology. His research focuses on the nexus between information technologies, public administration and government policy processes. His previous book wasAdministering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance (edited with Menno Fenger).

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: EXAMINING E-GOVERNMENT Conceptualizing Technology and Government The Governmentality of E-government PART II: DOMAINS OF E-GOVERNMENT E-welfare E-taxation E-health PART III: RECONFIGURATION OF GOVERNMENT Reconfiguring Public Administration  Speed, Time and the Future Networks and Conditionality Risk and Targeted Government Complex Government Reconfiguring Power, Citizenship, Society References Index