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E-Government consists of a strategic instrument for re-formulating the organization and the operation of Public Administrations, acting as a catalyst of trends and changes. It not only represents a resource that allows economic and operational advantages to be obtained, but is also an instrument that is capable of modifying the pre-existing operational mechanisms of the organization, guaranteeing a fast adaptation to continuous changes in the external environment. The use of e-Government not only facilitates the internal activities of the Public Administration, but also has the advantage of facilitating the relationship between different administrations, as well as the interaction with citizens and with businesses. The impact that e-Government can have is that of a better Public Administration, in that it allows public policies to be optimized, the quality of services to be raised, the involvement of the citizens to be widened, and other specific fundamental activities to be improved.The present work intends to illustrate the comprehensive framework of the public administration system in Italy and of the main tendencies in progress, paying particular attention to the development of new management logic, considering e-Government not only as a merely technological phenomenon, but also analyzing it in its full meaning with regards to the process of change and modernization of the public administration.

Intro -- Endorsements -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: A Public Administration Perspective on International Organizations -- Introduction -- Perspectives and Gaps -- Contours of a PA Approach to IPAs -- Central Conceptual Perspectives on IPAs -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: A Matter of Will and Action: The Bureaucratic Autonomy of International Public Administrations -- Introduction -- Bureaucratic Autonomy: The PA Perspective -- Bureaucratic Organization at the International Level: How Is It Different? -- Approaching Autonomy from a Relational and Sociological Perspective -- Conceptualizing and Measuring International Bureaucratic Autonomy -- Empirical Results and Possible Implications -- Conclusion and Way Forward -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Administrative Styles of International Organizations: Can We Find Them, Do They Matter? -- Introduction -- Administrative Styles: State of the Art and Research Gaps -- A Refined Concept of Administrative Styles -- (1) Policy Initiation Styles -- (2) Policy Drafting Styles -- (3) Policy Implementation Styles -- Toward Explanation: Determinants of Administrative Styles -- (1) The Policy Ambitions of the Bureaucracy -- (2) The Institutional Orientation of a Bureaucracy -- Four Ideal Types of Administrative Styles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Orchestrating (Bio-)Diversity: The Secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity as an Attention-­Seeking Bureaucracy -- Introduction -- Heuristic Framework: International Secretariats as Attention-Seeking Bureaucracies -- Treaty Secretariats as Attention-Seeking Bureaucracies -- Seeking Attention from the Inside: Treaty Secretariats' Cooperation with Chairpersons of Multilateral Negotiations.

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