Governo Electrónico Local: Acção Colectiva e Políticas Públicas dos Municípios ...

• Author(s): Saragoça, José ; Silva, Carlos ; Fialho, Joaquim
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/7807
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): governo electrónico local; políticas públicas; estratégia de actores; análise de redes sociais; prospectiva
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Editor(s): Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia

Description

This communication focuses on explaining the logic of collective action developed by municipalities in the district of Évora in the field of Local e-Government. Taking the backdrop of the axes of the sociology of action, we questioned the dynamic processes of public policies in the area of e-government site in the District of Évora. Through a prospective methodology (La Prospective) complemented with the use of techniques of social network analysis, we made explicit the system of e-government site (e-Local Government) in the District of Évora, we analysed the strategy of actors, and we anticipated possible futures for the Local e-Government. The main findings suggest that: a) the structures of collective action identified are producing order, in a way incompatible with the game of mere structural configuration pre-existing digital development of the region, b) the dependency relationships and influence and trend scenario results of a commitment to change on the part of key actors anchored in a bifurcation of its rationality that opposes the utilitarian logic of Local e-Government and subjective rationality of the actors c) citizen participation through new technologies (e-Participation) is a challenge discursively assumed by the actors, but they have no match for concrete and effective strategic actions in terms of public policy.