Reputation-based Governance

This book melds concepts from businesses like eBay with politics. Interdisciplinary tools are used to argue that the intelligent use of widely available Internet technologies can strengthen reputational mechanisms and significantly improve public governance. Based on this notion, the book proposes a governance model that leans on the concept of reputational incentives while discussing the pivotal role of reputation in politics today. It is argued that a continuous, distributed process of assessing policy outcomes, enabled by an appropriate information system, would contribute to a governance model characterized by effectiveness, efficiency, and a minimum amount of rent-seeking activity. Moreover, if citizens were also allowed to express their views on prospective policies, then reputation-based governance would provide a platform on which to develop advanced forms of participative democracy.

PICCI Lucio; 

2011-04-07

Stanford University Press

JRC62496

9780804773294,   

http://www.sup.org/cgi?book_id=7329,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC62496,