Showing papers on "Modernization theory published in 2020"
TL;DR: The Hungarian economy has undergone major systemic changes in the past thirty years as mentioned in this paper, and the impact of the reform is felt by every Hungarian citizen, however, the influence of the Hungarian experience does not stop at the borders of this small Eastern European country.
Abstract: This chapter addresses the general readership of this book, not only the specialist in comparative systems and socialist economies; therefore, it cannot avoid including information known to the experts. It focuses on phenomena that prevailed throughout the 1968–1985 period and characterize the present state of affairs, with only occasional backward glances. The Hungarian economy has undergone major systemic changes in the past thirty years. The impact of the reform is felt by every Hungarian citizen. The influence of the Hungarian experience, however, does not stop at the borders of this small Eastern European country. Reform is a notion used widely by many parties and political movements all over the world. The modernization of a highly bureaucratic regulation of the economy with the aid of computers is not “reform.”
382 citations
01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was established as state religion and the language and culture of the Amhara were promoted throughout the country by Menelik II (1889-1913).
Abstract: Ethiopia is an ancient country that has existed as an independent country for more than three millennia. Modern Ethiopia emerged with its present borders and ethnic makeup at the beginning of the twentieth century after the territorial expansion undertaken by Emperor Menelik II (1889–1913). Menelik continued the process of centralization and modernization of the Ethiopian state that was started in Imperial Ethiopia in 1855. Emperor Tewodros took land from the peasantry in the newly conquered territories, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was established as state religion and the language and culture of the Amhara were promoted throughout the country.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how four typical Chinese cities supported urbanization by promoting the development of different aspects of a real estate market to illustrate real estate's role in Chinese urbanization, thereby providing examples and cautions for urbanization both in China and in other parts of the developing world.
62 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out that one of the key problems hindering the strengthening of cooperation between South Korea and the Russian Federation not only in the energy sector, but also in other areas, is a negative impact in a kind of historical memory of previous experience of cooperation, or rather failure in implementation of projects or lack of implementation in general.
Abstract: One of the key problems hindering the strengthening of cooperation between South Korea and the Russian Federation not only in the energy sector, but also in other areas, is a negative impact in a kind of historical memory of previous experience of cooperation, or rather failure in implementation of projects or lack of implementation in general. Many projects in potentially promising areas remain on paper. Projects have never been implemented include modernization and commissioning by a joint Russian-North Korean enterprise with the participation of Russian Railways of the railway section from the Khasan station (Russia) to the port Rajin in order to transit from South Korea and gain access states of the Korean Peninsula to the Trans-Siberian Railway.
59 citations
TL;DR: The underlying theoretical framework and some accompanying data are reviewed from the perspective of innovation theory and the current age focuses on algorithms that automate the conversion of data into actionable knowledge.
Abstract: Digital technology, including its omnipresent connectedness and its powerful artificial intelligence, is the most recent long wave of humanity's socioeconomic evolution. The first technological revolutions go all the way back to the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, when the transformation of material was the driving force in the Schumpeterian process of creative destruction. A second metaparadigm of societal modernization was dedicated to the transformation of energy (aka the "industrial revolutions"), including water, steam, electric, and combustion power. The current metaparadigm focuses on the transformation of information. Less than 1% of the world's technologically stored information was in digital format in the late 1980s, surpassing more than 99% by 2012. Every 2.5 to 3 years, humanity is able to store more information than since the beginning of civilization. The current age focuses on algorithms that automate the conversion of data into actionable knowledge. This article reviews the underlying theoretical framework and some accompanying data from the perspective of innovation theory. .
45 citations
06 Jul 2020
TL;DR: A more positive view of globalization will require restoring the balance between independence and integration, mitigation of its costs within and between countries, and dealing with redundancy and supply risk as discussed by the authors, which is difficult to achieve.
Abstract: For almost 200 years, globalization has been seen as a positive development, albeit with costs and benefits, and as progress and modernization, a broadening of humanity’s scope from the local and parochial to the cosmopolitan and international. That changed dramatically with the Great Recession, the waves of migration of the last decade, and the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020. For many, globalization now connotes economic dislocation, increasing inequality, unwanted immigration, and a vehicle for the transmission of disease. The pandemic reminds us that most economic activity takes place within national borders. It has emphasized the dangers rather than the benefits of efficient linkages between markets, laying bare the dangers of complex global supply chains where any node can become a “choke point”, and the risks of overspecialization or the concentration of technological knowledge and/or production capacity in a single country or region. A more positive view of globalization will require restoring the balance between independence and integration, mitigation of its costs within and between countries, and dealing with redundancy and supply risk.
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TL;DR: This paper studied the social consequences of modernization, which led them to study urbanism, personal networks, the history of technology, and personal networks in the context of personal networks and social media.
Abstract: My research so far has followed an interest in the classic concern about the social consequences of modernization, which led me to study urbanism, personal networks, the history of technology, and ...
32 citations
TL;DR: The authors identify the origins of the early demographic transition in eighteenth-century France and show a strong association between religiosity and the timing of the transition, and draw on a novel dataset crowdsourced from publicly available genealogies to study individuals at the time.
Abstract: This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in eighteenth-century France. A turning point in history and an essential condition for development, the demographic transition first took hold in France more than a hundred years before any other country—and this event remains one of the ''big questions of history'' because of its timing and limited data availability. My results suggest that secularization accounts for the decline in fertility. I document an important and early process of dechristianization with never-before-used data on religious beliefs across time and space. Using census data, I show a strong association between religiosity and the timing of the transition. Finally, I draw on a novel dataset crowdsourced from publicly available genealogies to study individuals at the time. In order to establish a causal interpretation, I control for time-varying unobservables with fixed effects, study the effect of religiosity before and after secularization with difference-in-differences, and exploit the choices of second-generation migrants to account for unobserved institutional factors. These findings reveal that changes in preferences and the transition away from tradition may shape development.
30 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which fundamental rights expand without major resistance in the Ottoman Empire are explored, and the authors show that prior shifts in wealth toward indigenous Christians and away from conservative groups, including Muslim clerics, motivated Ottoman political leaders to begin, with the Gulhane Edict of 1839, to dismantle traditional institutions grounded in Islamic law and imperial customs of governance.
Abstract: Although radical institutional reforms that redistribute wealth usually involve violence, peaceful
transformations are not unknown. This paper explores the conditions under which fundamental
rights expand without major resistance. The empirical context is the start of the Ottoman
modernization drive, which is typically attributed to visionary officials and pressures they faced
from foreign powers. Fundamental roles were played, we show, by prior shifts in wealth toward
indigenous Christians and away from conservative groups, including Muslim clerics. These shifts,
all under way in the 1700s, motivated Ottoman political leaders to begin, with the Gulhane Edict
of 1839, to dismantle traditional institutions grounded in Islamic law and imperial customs of
governance. Despite its far-reaching provisions, the edict generated only minor pushback, because
it addressed widespread and chronic grievances, legitimated ongoing trends, and offered Muslim
political elites, who had been losing ground, opportunities to catch up with rapidly prospering local
Christians. The data, which come from Istanbul’s Islamic courts, point to changes in the sectarian
wealth distribution, as measured by the founding of waqfs (Islamic trusts) and ownership of
equities known as gediks. Evolving differences in sectarian economic opportunities and outcomes
allow the tracking of changes in political preferences in a context where records of parliamentary
votes and shareholder instructions are nonexistent.
28 citations
TL;DR: In some of the most established and supposedly immutable liberal democracies, diverse social groups are losing confidence not only in established democratic institutions, but also in the idea of liberal....
Abstract: In some of the most established and supposedly immutable liberal democracies, diverse social groups are losing confidence not only in established democratic institutions, but in the idea of liberal...
27 citations
22 Dec 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze features and trends within the development of medievalism and futurism in Japanese mass culture, and analyze cultural situations in which the intellectual discourse of mass culture develops along ethnic lines, while also acknowledging the contribution of modern technological civilization.
Abstract: The author analyses features and trends within the development of medievalism and futurism in Japanese mass culture. Mass culture in Japan arose as one of many consequences of political, social and cultural modernization. Medievalism and futurism simplify ideas regarding the past or the future (futurism) and incorporate their elements into the mass culture. These cultural phenomena are analyzed in the context of the imagination of communities, the invention of traditions, and the simulation of classical heritage within a Japanese context. The author analyses cultural situations in which the intellectual discourse of mass culture develops along ethnic lines, while also acknowledging the contribution of modern technological civilization. Medievalism in the identity of modern Japanese mass culture actualizes the myth of the ethnographic "golden age" of medieval culture’s feudal daimyo and samurai sub-culture. By contrast, futurism actualizes cultural phobias that are inspired by feelings of insecurity about the future of civilization. It is assumed that medievalism and futurism as forms of cultural escapism in Japanese popular culture arose as a consequence of the trauma of forced de-archaisation and de-feudalization, forced military and economic modernization, and the miraculous success of Japan’s economic growth and expansion in the post-war era. The author believes that these factors actualized social discomfort and stimulated escapist practices. The author analyses these phenomena within the context of mass culture, believing that a consumer society requires reflection upon the national past in order to yield a visualization of its continuity with earlier social institutions.
TL;DR: The development and modernization of the industry are known to bring many benefits for the human life, to diversify the production process and to create the abundant products originated from differ countries as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The development and modernization of the industry are known to bring many benefits for the human life, to diversify the production process and to create the abundant products originated from differ...
03 Jun 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the process of digitalization of modern education and identified the main problems and determine the prospects for digitalization in education, which can help coordinate the efforts of scientists, politicians, and civil society institutions to promote the socioeconomic and cultural development of our society.
Abstract: Introduction . The article analyzes the process of digitalization of modern education. The relevance of the study is determined by the special role of education in the life of modern society, based on the principles and values of the post-industrial era. The quality of human potential and people's readiness to face natural and social challenges largely depend on the effectiveness of the education system. In the process of improving national education, modern technologies are becoming more and more important every year, the introduction of which contributes to the modernization and development of education, as well as improving the quality of training of future specialists and bringing education closer to science. At the same time, such technologies require a review of existing approaches to educational activities, as well as an analysis of their impact on society and individual social groups. In this regard, the study of the digitalization of education and its social consequences is a very relevant area of research. The purpose of this study is to identify the main problems and determine the prospects for digitalization in education. Materials and methods . To achieve this goal, we used methods of dialectics of social cognition, analysis of philosophical, sociological, and pedagogical literature, and synthesis and modeling of socio-cultural processes. Results . The conclusions identify the main problems of digitalization of education: the dehumanization of educational, and then all other social relations, the possible deepening of the crisis of people's intellectual culture, their ability to create, the growth of pragmatism and individualism based on the values of personal comfort and selfish consumption. Prospects for the development of digitalization in the education system are outlined: instrumental - equipping educational institutions with high-quality software, information systems that provide access to educational resources, the introduction of information (distance) technologies, online learning, changing requirements for teachers and students, the formation of new organizational educational structures, inevitable changes in the usual forms and methods of training and value-semantic – finding a harmonious unity with the best traditions of domestic education. Discussion and Conclusions . These conclusions are aimed at solving practical issues related to the implementation of the state policy of digitalization of various spheres of public relations. They can help coordinate the efforts of scientists, politicians, and civil society institutions to promote the socio-economic and cultural development of our society. The results obtained allow us to approach the fundamental problems of managing the cultural policy of modern society more objectively and meaningfully. They are designed to stimulate the creation of new forms of culture based on the priorities of harmonizing national cultural characteristics and the specifics of the world's techno-scientific processes.
TL;DR: A study of their mutual interaction gives insights into modernization's somewhat distinct itinerary on the subcontinent and provides specificity to the history of the otherwise spatially wider American intervention in global and inter-Asian contexts as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: India's agrarian history has for the most part been cast within colonial and nationalist frameworks or in analyses of modernity and development in the South Asian historiography on both sides of the independence divide. This leaves plenty of space to discuss both the vast engagement of American actors with Indian elite formations and modifications to the agrarian projects contingent upon those interactions. A focus on the Americanist drive for agrarian modernization in India allows for exploring the distinct cultural location of modernization in a long-term perspective and its engagement with colonial “development.” A study of their mutual interaction gives insights into modernization's somewhat distinct itinerary on the subcontinent and provides specificity to the history of the otherwise spatially wider American intervention in global and inter-Asian contexts.
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27 Apr 2020TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the problem of teaching mathematics in the context of modernization, where the problems and obstacles that hinder the quality and effectiveness of the teaching of mathematical sciences in secondary schools are currently sufficiently explained.
Abstract: This article is devoted to the problem of teaching mathematics in the context of modernization, where the problems and obstacles that hinder the quality and effectiveness of the teaching of mathematical sciences in secondary schools are currently sufficiently explained.
01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam as an "arena" of competing interests in which actors of different generational, national, ideological, and class backgrounds struggled over the meaning of the engineering profession, which has traditionally been at the heart of modernization projects.
Abstract: Higher education was a central concern of postcolonial governments as they set out to produce national academic elites. In socialist Tanzania, the elitism inherent to systems of higher education was challenged by policies aiming to create an egalitarian society. This chapter analyzes the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam as an “arena” of competing interests in which actors of different generational, national, ideological, and class backgrounds struggled over the meaning of the engineering profession, which has traditionally been at the heart of modernization projects, and the allocation of resources. It discusses how the faculty was established and run with foreign (particularly West German) aid and personnel, what critiques were brought forward against this orientation, and how the economic crisis and engineers’ peculiar position eventually provided a pretext for the commercialization of the faculty—a process that signaled the gradual demise of Tanzanian socialism in the late 1970s and 1980s.
01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze discursive strategies around the entry of women into the labor market to promote their economic autonomy, as well as for the protection of motherhood and family during the center right-wing government of the Coalition for Change (2010-2014).
Abstract: Chile, within the Latin American context, is found to be a country where the neoliberal state model is considered successful. Although a debt is acknowledged in relation to equity and social justice, this insufficiency is associated with a failure of an administrative nature, arising from slow development and modernization of government management and structure. In this context, the “fairness” of gender and economic empowerment of women have become substantial issues. From a critical perspective, this chapter analyzes discursive strategies around the entry of women into the labor market to promote their economic autonomy, as well as for the protection of motherhood and family during the center right-wing government of the Coalition for Change (2010–2014). This government aimed at “modernizing” labor legislation toward protection for women, with a commitment to ensuring childcare, to even out both parents’ responsibilities, while reducing employers’ costs associated with recruiting women. Tensions arising between the government’s modernizing attempts and the rearticulation of conventional gender roles are analyzed through examining the Presidential Commission on Women, Work and Motherhood (2010) and in debates generated by its proposals in relation to gender issues.
TL;DR: The role played by the nobility in the modernization of Genoa, one of the poles of Italian economic development, was analyzed in this paper, where the authors analyzed the role of the aristocracy in the development of the city after the Napoleonic era.
Abstract: The article analyzes the role played by the nobility in the modernization of Genoa, one of the poles of Italian economic development. After the Napoleonic era, in which the city suffered huge finan...
16 Nov 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present those studies in the field of the History of Education that have emphasized international influences and educational modernization, and highlight the importance of studying international organizations, public diplomacy, the Cold War and Modernization Theory in order to understand the transformations that took place in educational systems worldwide during the second half of the 20th century.
Abstract: The purpose of the article is to present those studies in the field of the History of Education that have emphasized international influences and educational modernization. To do this, the first part of this article addresses the origin of this type of research within the History of Education. We then focus on analyzing the subsequent evolution that occurred with the beginning of the transnational turn and its impact on educational-historical research. Through a bibliographic review, we attempt to highlight the importance of studying international organizations, public diplomacy, the Cold War and Modernization Theory in order to understand the transformations that took place in educational systems worldwide during the second half of the 20th century. All these elements reveal more clearly the factors that made countries with different political regimes, cultural traditions or educational models begin to develop similar educational policies. Finally, this article points out the value of new research to understand the origin and development of certain policies at the international level.
TL;DR: The Arab Transformations Project (ATP) as discussed by the authors is an international research project operating within the European Commission's FP7 framework, Grant No. 320214, with a focus on Arab transformation.
Abstract: The Arab Transformations Project is an international research project operating within the European Commission’s FP7 framework, Grant No. 320214. The authors acknowledge the contribution of the partners to the project and specifically the design and conduct of the Arab Transformations survey on which this paper draws. The authors alone remain responsible for the content of this Article; it does not necessarily represent the views of the EU, the Court of the University of Aberdeen or any of the project partners.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the case of the Economic Commission for Latin America in Brazil to discuss how modernization theory was mobilized to influence management education and the theories formulated by the Ec...
Abstract: We investigate the case of the Economic Commission for Latin America in Brazil to discuss how modernization theory was mobilized to influence management education. The theories formulated by the Ec...
TL;DR: It is concluded that by the end of the first decade of the twentifirst century all the northern regions of Russia have not reached a level of development at which there were 18 industrialized countries in the early 1960s.
Abstract: The socio-economic and technological development of the northern regions of Russia, in the context of the modernization of the world is analysed. The regions are particularly vulnerable to external shocks because they do not have their own development resources. The modernization is seen as a sequence of primary and secondary stages of upgrading or modernization of an integrated carried out in developing countries. The absolute and relative modernization of indicators is used to determine the ranking of the region in the global context. The absolute value of the index is the indicator value of the developed European countries. It is concluded that by the end of the first decade of the twentifirst century all the northern regions of Russia have not reached a level of development at which there were 18 industrialized countries in the early 1960s.The knowledge economy in Moscow (86% of the level in developed countries), St. Petersburg (78%), the Nizhny Novgorod region (68%) is developed. All other regions of Russia are far from the three leaders. The divergence of indicators modernization is increasing. The growth rate of Arctic regions was in the two times higher than the world over the last decade, but the development of the northern regions of Russia lags behind and is concentrated in a small number of regions receiving income from the unusually high oil prices. In connection with this made possible the growth of the social component of modernization, but technological and institutional modernization was not happen.
01 Oct 2020
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the problem of energy modernization of the housing stock is presented, where a mathematical model for optimizing the modernization process using dynamic programming methods is presented based on the scheme of dynamic planning for the most appropriate allocation of funds for energysaving measures in general.
Abstract: The tasks of resource and energy saving in the housing and communal environment of districts, the search for the most favorable development in the control of the technical condition of the housing stock are the focus of many foreign and domestic studies. This paper presents a review of the problem of energy modernization of the housing stock. In the context of the research problem, the housing sector will be considered by analyzing several conditions. The identification of predominantly influencing factors that affect the transformation of changes in the housing stock is of crucial importance. A clear definition of these ratios within the system under study leads to accurate accounting and forecasting of the state of the housing stock. When studying the issue of energy modernization of residential real estate, it is important to differentiate and streamline, taking into account economic indicators, the composition and structure of works. A mathematical model for optimizing the modernization process using dynamic programming methods is presented. Based on the scheme of dynamic planning for the most appropriate allocation of funds for energysaving measures in general, a method for the most favorable regulation of the housing stock has been created. Energy modernization of the housing stock leads to a reduction in spending on housing and communal services, and contributes to improving comfortable living conditions for citizens.
TL;DR: Following the general rise of incarceration rates in Latin America, two general frameworks have been influential in attempting to explain the phenomenon: the neoliberal and the state transformation as discussed by the authors, and they have been widely used in the literature.
Abstract: Following the general rise of incarceration rates in Latin America, two general frameworks have been influential in attempting to explain the phenomenon: the neoliberal and the state transformation...
27 Feb 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined views and current conceptions of theory of modernization applied to the so called Eastern societies and more to the Ottoman Empire as the most prominent non-European political actor and one of few states that survives the domination of the “West” during XIX century.
Abstract: Article examines views and current conceptions of theory of modernization applied to the so called “Eastern societies” and more to the Ottoman Empire as the most prominent non-European political actor and one of few states that survives the domination of the “West” during XIX century. Due to its origins in 1960’s, theory of modernization encompassed wide and numerous ideas, theories and concepts in desperate attempt to clarify, how backward and generally weak, comparing to its Eastern neighbors-rivals European civilization (mainly Western European) became economically and so force politically stronger and suddenly turned the tables, enslaved almost all the world for century. Europeans created new or renovate old institutions (frequently in spite of themselves) to became fitter than their competitors in worldwide struggle for wealth, both political and economic. Theory of modernization tries to explain when, how and by whom these changes were incentivized. It took a few decades to create various and rarely views depends on scholar’s scientific methodology and research methods, ideological preferences and ethnicity. Simultaneously, such European-based theories were applied to the non-Western societies due to find out the reasons of their second-rate positions, which appeared obvious to anyone in the last quarter of the XIX century. Author tries to apply a methodic instrument given by theory of modernization to analyze the process of reforms in XVIII century Ottoman Empire and what their efforts in political, economical and moreover mental spheres lead them into a trap of vicious circle of reform. The main question, were the innovations, provided by Ottomans a simple westernization (in the meaning of mindless compilation of European-created institutions) or in was straight purpose to emulate “Western” societies – to become stronger and sufficient, using their own resource and methods.
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TL;DR: Putsenteilo et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the establishment and development of agrarian institutionalism in Ukraine and practical realization of the Ukrainian agricultural sector potential, based on fundamental premises of systems theory, structuralism and institutionalism.
Abstract: Putsenteilo, P., Klapkiv, Y., Karpenko, V. & Gvozdecka, I. (2020). The role of institutions in the development of agriculture. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 26 (1) 23–33 The institutional structure of the agricultural sector is a complex socio-economic system containing economic, organizational, legal, moral and ethical elements. The development of society in the process of market transformation leads to a change in the role of individual institutions and their importance. The aim of the article is to find out the possibilities of institutional systems reforming in agricultural sector on the basis of Ukrainian experience. In order to achieve this goal, the analysis of institutionalism theories evolution in the context of global development was provided and institutional estimation of the evaluation criteria of both individual types of institutions and the institutional environment of the agrarian sector of the economy was carried out. In order to substantiate main criteria for institutional transformations of the agrarian sector the authors have investigated the establishment and development of agrarian institutionalism in Ukraine and practical realization of the Ukrainian agricultural sector potential. The methodological basis of the article rests upon fundamental premises of systems theory, structuralism and institutionalism. The analyzed agrarian transformations have not been completed; therefore they need further research in the process of creation as they perform a key role in the agricultural economy of the region.
11 Dec 2020
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative analysis of the traditional markets in the Bosowasi region for six months was carried out using the theory of social structure, social construction, social change, and planned behavior.
Abstract: This research aimed to describe the model of strengthening the traditional markets. It was conducted in the Bosowasi region for six months. The type of this research was a qualitative descriptive one by using a social approach in gathering data and using the theory of social structure, social construction, social change, and planned behavior to analyze the data. The results of this research showed that (1) The modernization and technological development apparently do not necessarily eliminate people’s desire to shop in traditional markets, (2) The democratic trade model practiced in traditional markets can actually drive the people’s economy, and (3) The innovation, partnership and policies developed in traditional markets can make them existing throughout time without compromising the needs of future generations. These results served as the basis for formulating the model of strengthening traditional markets and this model was called the “BSWS Model”. This model can make the traditional markets orderly, safe, clean and healthy, can make them competitive with the modern retailers, can improve services to the community, and can make them as a driving wheel of the regional economy.
TL;DR: The research examines how the objectives of IT projects and their actual effects in government are influenced by such ideologies and contestations that surround them, and identifies the effects of the ideologically shaped IT projects on two key values of public administration: efficiency and legality.
Abstract: We develop a perspective of IT innovation in the public sector as a process that involves three complementary areas of ideology and concomitant dispute. First, the widespread view of e-government as a transformative force that leads to major improvements of public sector functions for the benefit of society at large. Second, ideologies concerning the substantive policies enacted by public sector organizations. Third, ideology regarding public sector modernization. Our research examines how the objectives of IT projects and their actual effects in government are influenced by such ideologies and contestations that surround them. We develop our theoretical contribution with a critical discourse analysis that traces the ideological underpinnings of two consecutive IT projects for the administration of international trade in Mexico. This analysis associates the objectives of the IT projects with the emergence and ensuing contestation in Mexican politics of two ideologies: the first ideology concerns free international trade as imperative for economic development; the second ideology concerns public sector modernization which sought to overcome historically formed dysfunctionalities of public administration bureaucracies by adopting management practices from the private sector. The analysis then identifies the effects of the ideologically shaped IT projects on two key values of public administration, efficiency and legality. The insights of this research on the role of ideology in IT innovation complement organizational perspectives of e-government; socio-cognitive perspectives that focus on ideas and meaning, such as technology frames and organizing visions; and perspectives that focus on politics in IT innovation.
TL;DR: For example, at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping outlined the party's goal to complete national defense and military modernization as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: At the Nineteenth Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping outlined the party’s goal to “complete national defense and military modernization b...