“Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest”
| Title | “Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest” |
| Year for Search | 2016 |
| Authors | Bouckaert, Geert(b. 1958), and Crompvoets, Joep |
| Secondary Authors | Achten, Veerle, Bouckaert, Geert(b. 1958), and Schokkaert, Erik |
| Secondary Title | ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia |
| Pagination | 158-71 |
| Date Published | 2016 |
| Publisher | Leuven University Press |
| Place Published | Leuven, Belgium |
| Keywords | Belgian author, Male author |
| Annotation | A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated. |
| Holding Institutions | MH |
| Author Note | Both Belgian authors are professors in the Public Governance Institute at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Bouckaert (b. 1958) Crompvoets (b. 1968) |
| Full Text | 2016 Bouckaert, Geert (b. 1958) and Joep Crompvoets (b. 1968). “Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest.” ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia. Ed. Veerle Achten, Geert Bouckaert, and Erik Schokkaert (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2016), 158-71. MH A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated. Both Belgian authors are professors in the Public Governance Institute at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. |
