ABSTRACT
Introduction It has already been argued that the advent of computing power and information networks brought with it possibility that information can be shared and communicated within, and between, various public bureaucracies. The ideal type of the post-bureaucratic organization is even based on the view that information exchange can and should break down traditional bureaucratic boundaries. The question is whether we can expect this to happen in actual practice, and how technological opportunity shapes and is shaped by the socio-political contexts of actual public administration.
