E-government: administrative morality and the new public arena of the network society

Abstract

The Public Administration continues in a process of structural change that tends to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic vision and adopt a managerial bias. In the context of the network society, electronic government uses modern technological tools not only to achieve its traditional objectives, but also to achieve greater transparency and closer relations with the now interconnected citizens. Faced with this new reality evidenced by cyberculture, it is argued that the reflection of the digital revolution in the State and its public governance is able to induce greater administrative morality, either by the control resulting from the crossing of computerized data, or by greater popular participation due to greater transparency and expansion of network debates. The hypothetical-deductive method was used, with literature review in order to build a theoretical framework able to support the conclusions presented about the digital public arena and its impact on administrative morality.