Electronic Government: Perspectives from e-Commerce
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Fostering the determinants of knowledge sharing in professional virtual communities
Computers in Human Behavior
A role-based mobile-agent approach to support e-democracy
Applied Soft Computing
Tracking and explaining E-participation in India
ePart'10 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
e-government... not e-governance... not e-democracy not now!: not ever?
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Does ontology influence technological projects? the case of irish electronic voting
WM'05 Proceedings of the Third Biennial conference on Professional Knowledge Management
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Present paper examines whether citizens' empowered status influences their online democratic participation. The paper put forward two stages of citizen empowerment in the virtual space. In the first stage, citizens are enabled for e-democracy participation and in the second stage citizens are part of the decision making process. On the basis of review of literature, a research model was delineated and tested with quantitative data collected through a survey. Regression results indicate that empowerment elements do influence the participation in e-democracy. The study also reveals that participation in partisan networks influences by cohesive empowerment. Citizen participation through electronic voting machines is influenced by the network actor's empowerment status. And citizens' technical empowerment is found to influence participation through mobile phones.