A strategic perspective of electronic democracy
Communications of the ACM
Rating the impact of new technologies on democracy
Communications of the ACM
ICTs, bureaucracies, and the future of democracy
Communications of the ACM
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age
Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age
Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet
Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet
IEEE Internet Computing
Collective action in the age of the internet: mass communication and online mobilization
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue: Psychology and the internet
Bringing e-democracy back in: why it matters for future research on e-governance
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue: Jane fountain's "building the virtual state"
E-democracy: a critical evaluation of the ultimate e-dream
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue: Jane fountain's "building the virtual state"
E-Commerce: Business, Technology, Society (3rd Edition)
E-Commerce: Business, Technology, Society (3rd Edition)
An analysis of the determinants and effects of ICT diffusion in developing countries
Information Technology for Development
Representative democracy and information society - A postmodern perspective
Information Polity
The state we are in: E-democracy in Denmark
Information Polity
Who are political users of the Internet?: an empirical study of the democratic divide
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities
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In recent years, several case studies have appeared on how mobile telephones, SMS and the Internet had an impact on political activities. It has been widely argued that information and communication technology (ICT) is influencing democracy all over the world. However, few studies provide any analysis of how ICT expansion correlates with measures of democracy. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the global expansion of ICT and the level of democracy within nations. We analyze archival data on 133 countries from 1995 to 2003, which was the period-of-time of explosive ICT expansion. Some important findings of our study are: (a) there is a growing digital divide in democratic freedoms among countries; (b) in spite of rapid ICT expansion in some countries, Internet filtering is having a significant impact on democratic freedoms.