Can Governance be Intelligent?
An Interdisciplinary Approach and Evolutionary Modelling for Intelligent Governance in the Digital Age

This Element shows that Intelligent Governance should build on interdisciplinary knowledge and explanatory models for the public interest.

Eran Vigoda-Gadot (Author)

9781009475884, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 June 2024

82 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.1 cm, 0.27 kg

Intelligence is a concept that occurs in multiple contexts and has various meanings. It refers to the ability of human beings and other entities to think and understand the world around us. It represents a set of skills directed at problem-solving and targeted at producing effective results. Thus, intelligence and governance are an odd couple. We expect governments and other governing institutions to operate in an intelligent manner, but too frequently we criticize their understanding of serious public problems, their decisions, behaviors, managerial skills, ability to solve urgent problems, and overall governability wisdom. This manuscript deals with such questions using interdisciplinary insights (i.e., psychological, social, institutional, biological, technological) on intelligence and integrating it with knowledge in governance, administration, and management in public and non-profit sectors. We propose the IntelliGov framework, that may extend both our theoretical, methodological, analytical, and applied understanding of intelligent governance in the digital age.

1. Introduction: the intelligent us
2. Intelligence: conceptual and theoretical background 3. Is there multiple intelligence in governance? 4. Multiple intelligence: an interdisciplinary perspective
5. Towards intelligent governance: an evolutionary model
6. IntelliGov: a comprehensive interdisciplinary model of governance intelligence
7. IntelliGov in the Digital Age: how technology revolutionize governance intelligence as an integration of minds
8. Future studies on Intelligent Governance: major challenges
9. Discussion: towards a theory of multiple intelligence in governance
10. Summary: can governance be intelligent, and how?
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Subject Areas: Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU]