E-government has emerged not merely as a specialization in public administration but as a transformative force affecting all leaves and functions in government. Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices, written by a collection of practitioners and researchers, provides an overview of the management challenges and issues involved in seeking a new form of governance--digital government.

About the Editors

Alexei Pavlichev is a Ph.D. student of public administration at the North Carolina State University. His academic interests include information technology and geographic information systems. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the American University.

G. David Garson is full professor of public administration at North Carolina State University, where he teaches courses on American government, research methodology, computer applications, and geographic information systems. In 1995 he was recipient of the Donald Campbell Award from the Policy Studies Organization, American Political Science Association, for outstanding contributions to policy research methodology and in 1997 of the Aaron Wildavsky Book Award from the same organization. He is author of Guide to Writing Quantitative Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Dekker, 2001), editor of Social Dimensions of Information Technology (2000), Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends (1999), and Handbook of Public Information Systems (1999), and is author of Neural Network Analysis for Social Scientists (1998), Computer Technology and Social Issues (1995), and is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 17 other books and author or coauthor of more than 50 articles. For the last 20 years he has also served as editor of the Social Science Computer Review and is on the editorial board of four additional journals.