Plus ça Change...: ar elektroninė valdžia pagerins viešąjį valdymą Lietuvoje?
Plus Ça Change...: Will the E-Government Improve the Public Management in Lithuania?

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) will not, by themselves, resolve the issues, faced by Lithuanian public administration in designing and implementing its policies. This is the major argument of the article, supported by the available empirical information and various secondary sources. Why the bureaucracy, which is often considered as being slow, inflexible and inertic should suddenly change due to the mere fact of ICT being purchased and installed? The answer is often based on some intuitive logic, which is called in this article the “ideal model of e-government”. However, it has to be acknowledged that the e-government is a rather new development, so one should hardly expect that all the visions will be successful outright. The article claims that in order to take a full advantage of the ICT potential in the public sector, a clear choice of an actual model of public administration is necessary. Here a number of classic dilemmas may be identified – regarding the relations between the public and the private sectors, internal control within the organization, sharing of responsibilities between organizations, etc.

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