Digitalization and Public Sector Transformations

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This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states. It dives into a case study of digitalization efforts in Denmark, fusing a national policy study with local institutional analysis. Denmark is often framed as an international forerunner in terms of digitalizing its public sector and thus provides a particularly instructive setting for understanding this new political instrument. Advancing a cultural political economic approach, Schou and Hjelholt argue that digitalization is far from a quick technological fix. Instead, this area must be located against wider transformations within the political economy of capitalist states. Doing so, the book excavates the political roots of digitalization and reveals its institutional consequences. It shows how new relations are being formed between the state and its citizens. Digitalization and Public Sector Transformationspushes for a renewed approach to governmental digitalization and will be of interest to scholars working in the intersections of critical political economy, state theory and policy studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt)....Pages 1-17 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Cultural Political Economy (Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt)....Pages 21-37 State Transformations: A CPE-Perspective (Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt)....Pages 39-56 Front Matter ....Pages 57-57 Rolling Out Digitalization: Hegemonies, Policies and Governance Failures (Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt)....Pages 59-83 Localizing Digitalization: New State Spaces and Local Resistances (Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt)....Pages 85-106 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 Conclusion (Jannick Schou, Morten Hjelholt)....Pages 109-117 Back Matter ....Pages 119-122