Should democracy online be quick, strong, or thin?
Communications of the ACM
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change
Emerging electronic infrastructures: exploring democratic components
Social Science Computer Review - E-government
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"
Characterizing E-Participation in Policy-Making
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 5 - Volume 5
Theories of the Information Society (International Library of Sociology)
Theories of the Information Society (International Library of Sociology)
Explaining eDemocracy development: A quantitative empirical study
Information Polity
Measuring the diffusion of eParticipation: A survey on Italian local government
Information Polity - Reflections on ICT in Public Administration from the European Group on Public Administration
Republic.com 2.0
Measuring E-Democracy Opportunities: A Global Perspective
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
eParticipation: The Research Gaps
ePart '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Electronic Participation
ICT Is Not Participation Is Not Democracy --- eParticipation Development Models Revisited
ePart '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Electronic Participation
Whose e-democracy?: the democratic divide in American electoral campaigns
Information Polity - Special issue on Freedom of Information
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The field that tries to answer, through comparative research, the question of what factors explain the existence of e-democracy is, despite several recent contributions, quite undeveloped. Due to strong theoretical foundations and extensive quantitative data, this article adds to this field with an overall ambition of not only explaining variation in supply of and demand for e-democracy but also examining how these two dimensions are related. The case in this article is Sweden and the analyses report several unexpected findings. E-democracy provided by Swedish municipalities is positively related to citizens' level of education and population figures but not to the level of technological development. With an analogous logic, citizens in Sweden are more inclined to use e-democratic functions if they have high levels of income and education and, also have experiences of using computers. However, no significant variation exists among different genders or age groups. When these two perspectives are combined no significant relationship emerges, indicating a discrepancy between supply of and demand for e-democracy. Finally, the fact that this inclination for citizens' involvement in e-democracy is solely determined by micro characteristics points to the importance of theoretical development.