Jane E. Fountain is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy 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 and the Science, Technology and Society Initiative, both based at UMass Amherst. Papers posted here are those available through UMass' ScholarWorks. Please visit Dr. Fountain's personal website for a complete list of publications and presentations: http://people.umass.edu/jfountai/
Articles
Notes on the Impact of Research on the Development of eGovernment (Invited Article), European Review of Political Technologies (2007)
Institutional Development in the Virtual State: The Missing Link in Technological Perspectives on e-Government, Politicheskaya Nauka (2007)
Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government, NCDG (2003)
From the Executive Summary: 'To provide guidance and discussion meant to support the development of...
Contributions to Books
Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective, The Handbook of Internet Politics (2008)
Challenges to Organizational Change: Facilitating and Inhibiting Information-Based Redesign of Public Organizations, Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government (2007)
Preface to the Japanese translation of Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change, Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (2005)
Electronic Government: Key Challenges for Human-Computer Interaction, Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (2004)
Working Papers
Better public services for growth and jobs, National Center for Digital Government Working Paper Series (2007)
Better public services for growth and jobs, National Center for digital Government Working Paper Series (2007)
Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective, National Center for Digital Government Working Paper Series (2007)
Technology enactment, an analytical framework that focuses on the processes by which new information and...
Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective, National Center for Digital Government Working Paper Series (2007)
Enacting Technology in Networked Governance: Developmental Processes of Cross-Agency Arrangements, National Center for Digital Government Working Paper Series (2006)
This paper discusses the technology enactment framework, an analytical framework to guide exploration and examination...
Unpublished Papers
Ethics in Science and Engineering: Redefining Tools and Resources (with Goncalves Michelle, Adamick Jessica, and Billings Marilyn), University of Massachusetts Amherst Science, Technology and Society Initiative (2010)
The leaders of the ESENCe beta site project organized
a national workshop, “Ethics in Science...
Presentations
Expanding Ethics Education in Science & Engineering, Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (2010)
This presentation was part of the AAAS Annual Conference professional development workshop, National Science Foundation...
Other
Nanotechnology and Society: Emerging Organizations, Oversight and Public Policy Systems (with Sarah Keister and Goncalves Michelle) (2011)
This report summarizes key points of a National Science Foundation supported national workshop, “Nanotechnology &...
The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market: Creating a 21st Century Public Agency (with Raquel Galindo-Dorado and Jeffrey Rothschild), National Center for Digital Government Working Paper Series (2010)
(first paragraph) President Wubbo de Boer and his department directors, his top management team, prepared...
Oficina de Armonización del Mercado Interior: La creación de un organismo público para el siglo XXI (with Raquel Galindo-Dorado and Jeffrey Rothschild), NCDG (2010)
(primer párrafo) En el invierno de 2010, el presidente Wubbo de Boer, en compañía de...