The Tools of Government in the Digital Age [Hardcover]

This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood's classic work The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First century. Comprehensively revised throughout, it includes increased coverage of how government gets information and an assessment of how the tools available to government have changed over time.

This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood's classic work The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First century. Comprehensively revised throughout, it includes increased coverage of how government gets information and an assessment of how the tools available to government have changed over time.

Exploring Governments' Toolshed.- Nodality.- Authority.- Treasure.- Organization.- Government as a Toolkit.- Alternative Approaches to the Tools of Government.- A Changing Mix of Government Tools in the Digital Age.

CHRISTOPHER C. HOOD is Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford, UK.

HELEN Z. MARGETTS is Professor of Society and the Internet, University of Oxford, UK.

• A new and comprehensively revised and updated version of a classic text (The Tools of Government by Christopher Hood) first published in 98. 
  
• The 'tools' approach has been increasingly influential in recent years and this is the key text by the leading authority 
  
• Includes substantial coverage throughout of the impact of digital technology on public policy