Mock-up exam technology, policy and science
21 Questions
(1) What are the 4 positions of the technology debate and what is their standpoint on agency and
neutrality? Make sure to also explain what agency and neutrality mean.
(2) What are 4 perspectives that relate technology to policy-making?
(3) What does Winner argue?
(4) What are 6 ways of identifying the information society?
(5) What are the 3 main theories of the information society, and does it represent a new age?
(6) What is the difference between Beck and Giddens’ theory on modernity?
(7) What is Giddens main premise?
(8) What is public value and public values?
(9) Give the definitions of the following terms
● Legitimacy =
● Input legitimacy =
● output legitimacy =
● Throughput legitimacy =
● Cognitive alignment =
● Normative alignment =
● Regulatory alignment =
● Transparency =
● Informational transparency =
● Analytical transparency =
● Integrative transparency =
● Accountability =
(10) What are the main characteristics of big data?
, (11) What are the barriers of big data?
(12) What is the difference between e-government and digital government?
(13) What are the barriers / drivers of e-participation on the individual level and group level?
(14) What are the 5 types of incentives?
(15) What are the main characteristics of the public sphere?
(16) Refeudalization is…
(17) What are 2 consequences of information management?
(18) How does e-participation contribute to the public sphere?
(19) What are the different policy approaches between the private and public sector?
(20) Explain the difference between invention and diffusion (two paths to innovation)
(21) What are drivers and barriers of policy innovation?
21 Questions
(1) What are the 4 positions of the technology debate and what is their standpoint on agency and
neutrality? Make sure to also explain what agency and neutrality mean.
(2) What are 4 perspectives that relate technology to policy-making?
(3) What does Winner argue?
(4) What are 6 ways of identifying the information society?
(5) What are the 3 main theories of the information society, and does it represent a new age?
(6) What is the difference between Beck and Giddens’ theory on modernity?
(7) What is Giddens main premise?
(8) What is public value and public values?
(9) Give the definitions of the following terms
● Legitimacy =
● Input legitimacy =
● output legitimacy =
● Throughput legitimacy =
● Cognitive alignment =
● Normative alignment =
● Regulatory alignment =
● Transparency =
● Informational transparency =
● Analytical transparency =
● Integrative transparency =
● Accountability =
(10) What are the main characteristics of big data?
, (11) What are the barriers of big data?
(12) What is the difference between e-government and digital government?
(13) What are the barriers / drivers of e-participation on the individual level and group level?
(14) What are the 5 types of incentives?
(15) What are the main characteristics of the public sphere?
(16) Refeudalization is…
(17) What are 2 consequences of information management?
(18) How does e-participation contribute to the public sphere?
(19) What are the different policy approaches between the private and public sector?
(20) Explain the difference between invention and diffusion (two paths to innovation)
(21) What are drivers and barriers of policy innovation?
