Amanda Clarke (she/her)
Associate Professor & Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair, Carleton University’s School of Public Policy & Administration
Amanda Clarke is Associate Professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. Her research examines digital era public administration, public data governance and government-citizen relations. She is author of Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age and a co-founder of the international open access education project Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age. In 2021 she was awarded a Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award, and included in Apolitical‘s list of the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.
Sessions
50 years
The Evolution of Digital Government Orthodoxy: 2006-2017
In this presentation, Professor Clarke explores the wave of research and practitioner experience which suggests that these paradigms as originally conceived at once greatly over-estimated the capacity of government to undertake a more open and collaborative style of governance, while also ignoring insights from traditional public administration research which question the logic of unbridled openness and participatory policy and service delivery models. See More.