Global Connectivity and Government Capacity: Social Networks, Order, Change, and

Information and communication technologies (ICT), like all technologies, are catalysts for political change and potential conflict. The "Internet effect" continues to fuel the explosive growth of ICT, and has enduring implications. It has sparked the long fuse of an Information Revolution-and a Social Network Revolution. This revolutionary wave is fundamentally altering both the structure of institutional arrangements and the behavior of bureaucratic organizations by transforming traditiona...