Jane E. Fountain -

	National Center for Digital Government
	Science, Technology and Society Initiative
	University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jane E. Fountain is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, she served for 16 years on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Fountain is the founder and Director of the National Center for Digital Government, based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which was established with support from the National Science Foundation to develop research and infrastructure for the emerging field information technology and governance. During the past decade, the National Center has sponsored research workshops, seminars, doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships and visiting faculty from throughout the world in addition to its active research programs. MORE...

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Selected papers for download:

JEF. "Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective." In Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard (Eds). The Handbook of Internet Politics. New York: Routledge. forthcoming [PDF]

JEF. "Notes on the Impact of Research on the Development of eGovernment." European Review of Political Technologies, Special Issue: Towards a Common eGovernment Research Agenda in Europe. vol 5. February 2008. [PDF]

JEF. “Central Issues in the Political Development of the Virtual State,” in Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso, eds. The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2006). [PDF]

JEF. Preface to the Chinese translation of Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (Renmin University Press, 2004). [PDF]

JEF, "Digital government and public health", In: Preventing Chronic Disease, 2004 October. [HTML]

JEF, Y. Arens, J. Callan, S. Dawes, E. Hovy and G. Marchionini, "Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Government," white paper written for the National Science Foundation CISE Directorate, June 2003. [PDF]

JEF, "Prospects for Improving the Regulatory Process using E-Rulemaking", in Communications of the ACM, special issue on digital government, edited by Lawrence E. Brandt, Gary Marchionini, and Hanan Samet, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2003. [PDF]

JEF. "Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government," monograph based on a national workshop organized by the author, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, August 2002. Available as Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper, RWP03-004, January 2003. [Available through Social Science Research Network]

JEF. "The Virtual State: Transforming American Government?" National Civic Review, vol. 90, no. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 241-252. [PDF]

JEF. Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001). Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title 2002. [Chapter 1 PDF]

JEF. "Constructing the Information Society: Women, Information Technology and Design," Technology in Society, 22, April 2000, pp. 45-62. [PDF]

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