Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
What Drives Global E-Governance? An Exploratory Study at a Macro Level
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 5 - Volume 05
Capacity Building and IT Diffusion
Social Science Computer Review
The Myth of Digital Democracy
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance
Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance
Exploring Online Structures on Chinese Government Portals
Social Science Computer Review
Understanding the Impact of Political Structure, Governance and Public Policy on E-Government
HICSS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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Effective e-government creates an environment for citizens to have greater access to their government and, in theory, makes citizen-to-government contact more inclusive. Our research examines two distinct but related measures of e-government effectiveness, namely the online service index and the e-participation index, both reported in the 2010 e-government survey conducted by the United Nations. We analyze the impact of political structure, administrative culture and policy initiatives on both indices in more than 150 countries. Our multiple regression analysis shows that there is greater e-government capability in countries that have an administrative culture of sound governance and policies that advance the development and diffusion of information and communication technologies. More democratic institutions and processes, however, appear to have a negative impact on e-government. In addition, countries that practice effective governance and promote competition in the telecommunications sector demonstrate more extensive provision of e-participation. These results suggest that the path to e-government leverages different strategies depending on a nation's political structure, and that authoritarian countries may be utilizing e-government to maintain the status quo.