Bio
Dr. Pearson Broome is a lecturer in Political Science and is also the Programme Coordinator for the MSc. e-Governance for Developing Countries in the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He has diverse working experience in the Caribbean. He served as a Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Barbados, Senior Research Officer in the CARICOM Secretariat Georgetown Guyana. Additionally, he served as a Consultant to Systems Consulting Limited, UNDP, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit, and CARICAD.
Qualifications
PhD. University of Cambridge
MSc. (Econ.) Development Studies/ International Relations, London School of Economics
B. A. (Hons.) Double Major History and Political Science
PGCUTL (Distinction) UWI.
Research Areas
Research interests include:
- eGovernance/eGovernment/eCommerce/eDemocracy, with particular emphasis on the theoretical approaches and the institutionalization of ICTs;
- ICTs and the globalisation process focusing on artificial intelligence, metaverse, outsourcing, trade, investment and technology transfer flows;
- the evaluation of national ICT Policies and National Systems of Innovation, science and technology policy, deregulation and telecommunications policy.
- Public policy analysis, design and evaluation with emphases on new public management and the restructuring of state bureaucracies, and its application to public sector management in developing countries.
- Ethics and its application to “good” governance particularly examining the ways different conceptual frameworks influence development policy debates.
Teaching Areas
Lecturer for the Following Undergraduate Courses:
GOVT 1000 Introduction to Political Institutions and Analysis
GOVT 2057 e- Governance in Small Island Developing States I
FOUN 1301 Law, Governance, Society and Economy in the Caribbean
MGMT 3078 Policy Analysis
Lecturer for the Following Postgraduate Courses:
EGOV 6020 eGovernance in Developing States
EGOV 6010 Investigative Methods for Egovernance
EGOV 6040 Managing Organizational Change in the New Economy
EGOV 6080 eDemocracy and Access to eGovernment
EGOV, 6090, MSc. Practicum Supervisor
EGOV 6999 MSc. Research Supervisor
PSMA 6004 Policy Analysis and Management
EGOVT 6020 Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Sector Management
CHSB: Ethics and Integrity in the exercise of the Public function for the Diploma in Governance and Public Innovation for Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Select Publications
Broome, P. A. (2021) An Ethical Turn in Governance:The Call for a New Development Narrative. New York: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield publishers. ISBN-10 : 1498591973: ISBN-13 : 978- 1498591973
Broome, P. A. (2024) “Neo-Industrialisation by Digitization: The Creation of a Caricom Digital Free Trade Zone (CDFTZ) Part I.” In Baikaidy, R., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., et al (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems- Major Reference Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3- 030-68127-2_394-1#DOI>
Broome, P. A. (2024) “Pandemic Recovery: Capacity Building for a Neo-Industrial Pathway to Digital Development, Part II.” In Baikaidy, R., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., et al (2024) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social ProblemsMajor Reference Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127- 2_429-1
Broome, P. A. (2022) “Capitalism and Morality: The Great Reset.” In Baikaidy, R., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., et al (2022) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change- Major Reference Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_19-1
Broome, P. A. (2024) “Constitutional Reform in the Digital Era.” In Social and Economic Studies Vol. 72, No. I and II pp. 123-157
Broome, P.A. (2015) ‘Before Egovernance and Egovernment, Back to Basics!’. In, Sage Open Access, July-September, Vol. 5. No. 3, DOI: 10.1177/2158244015603106, http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/5/3/2158244015603106.article-info
Additional Info
UWI/UNDP Statistical Report Democratic Governance Assessment Exercise in Small Island Developing States: The Case of Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda.
Joint winner of the Principal’s Research Award for Most Interdisciplinary Research Faculty of Social Sciences
Keywords
E-Governance/ E-Government
Information and Communication Technologies for development/ Ecommerce and Development
Social Media and Development, Digital Activism
Ethics, Applied Ethics, Good Governance,
\Public Policy Analysis and Development in CARICOM and Developing Countries