ABSTRACT
Policy informatics is a new fi eld of inquiry defi ned by Johnston in this volume as “the study of how computation and communication technology is leveraged to understand and address complex public policy and administration problems and realize innovations in governance processes and institutions” (p. 3 of this volume). Policy informatics focuses on the need of scholars and public organizations alike to understand how knowledge is governed in public sector organizations, how these processes can be analyzed, and how their impact on the effi ciency and effectiveness of government organizations can be measured, interpreted, and revised based on the insights gained from social computational data analysis methods.
