From the preface to the book: "I discuss the role and the relevance of reputation in governance, and argue that an intelligent use of widely available Internet technologies would strengthen reputational mechanisms and significantly improve public governance."
Reviews:
"This is a highly original, coherent analysis of the potential of the e-governance to transform the nature and performance of the public sector—destroying hierarchies, whether of logic or of power, 'with the possibility (or the threat) of random access and information symmetry.'"
— Fred Thompson, Professor and Director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy Research, Willamette University
"Reputation-Based Governance presents an innovative and practical proposal to improve government performance through the use of internet-based feedback. Picci's system would give public officials, private contractors, and political appointees incentives to develop strong, positive reputations. E-government can encompass entirely new ways for citizens to hold government to account."
— Susan Rose-Ackerman, Professor, Yale Law School and Department of Political Science and author of From Elections to Democracy
