Current Issues and Trends in E-Government Research

Current Issues and Trends in E-Government Research

Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 332

ISBN13: 9781599042831|ISBN10: 1599042835|EISBN13: 9781599042855|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781599042848

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-283-1

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As emerging trends and research threads surface in the area of e-government, academicians, practitioners, and students face the challenge of keeping up-to-date with new and innovative practices. Current Issues and Trends in E-Government Research provides a complete synopsis of the latest technologies in information policy, security, privacy, and access, as well as the best practices in e-government applications and measurement.

Current Issues and Trends in E-Government Research presents the most current issues in e-government hardware and software technology, adoption and diffusion, planning and management, and philosophy.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Assessing Digital Government at the Local Level Worldwide: An Analysis of Municipal Web Sites Throughout the World (pages 1-21)

James Melitski, Marc Holzer

Throughout the world, government agencies are looking to use information technology as a tool for strategically enhancing their performance and creating public value. Our research examines 84 cities worldwide and evaluates their...

Chapter 2

The Impact of the Internet on Political Activism: Evidence from Europe (pages 22-43)

Pippa Norris

The core issue for this study concerns less the social than the political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies; in particular, the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation and civic engagement...

Chapter 3

E-Government in Canada: Transition or Transformation? (pages 44-67)

Jeffrey Roy

The objectives of this chapter are first, to examine the main conceptual dimensions of electronic government and second, to critically assess Canada’s public sector. The following definition of e-government is a starting point: the...

Chapter 4

Motives, Strategic Approach, Objectives and Focal Areas in E-Gov-Induced Change (pages 68-91)

Hans J. (Jochen) Scholl

In its early catalogue and transaction phases, E-Government (e-gov) has been quite successful, although some critics say that it mainly reaped the harvest of relatively low hanging fruits by making paper-based information accessible...

Chapter 5

E-Government-Induced Business Process Change (BPC): An Empirical Study of Current Practices (pages 92-119)

Hans J. (Jochen) Scholl

E-government (e-gov) projects have an increasing influence on how government business processes evolve and change. While early e-gov projects focused on government- to-public information and interaction, the second and third wave of...

Chapter 6

Computer Security in Electronic Government: A State-Local Education Information System (pages 120-145)

Alison Radl, Yu-Che Chen

As e-government projects proliferate at all levels of government, and as they transition from voluntary to mandatory participation, close examination is required, particularly the examination of security issues. The CIA...

Chapter 7

Measuring and Explaining the Quality of Web Sites in the (Virtual) House of Representatives (pages 146-162)

Kevin M. Esterling, David M.J. Lazer, Michael A. Neblo

To date, research on e-government has devoted relatively little attention to how legislators use the Internet to enhance the representative function. In this chapter, we develop a general method to evaluate the quality of legislative...

Chapter 8

Electronic Democracy at the American Grassroots (pages 163-179)

Donald F. Norris

In this chapter, I examine the delivery of electronic democracy (e-democracy) by U.S. local governments through their e-government activities. In particular, I examine three issues related to local e-democracy through data from focus...

Chapter 9

A Brave New E-World? An Exploratory Analysis of Worldwide E-Government Readiness, Level of Democracy, Corruption, and Globalization (pages 180-202)

Zlatko J. Kovacic

This chapter reports research results on the relationship between e-government readiness and its components and the level of democracy, corruption and globalization for 191 countries. A supply-side approach to e-government analysis...

Chapter 10

Scenarios for Future Use of E-Democracy Tools in Europe (pages 203-223)

Herbert Kubicek, Hilmar Westholm

Many ICT-based tools for supporting democratic participation that have been developed with public funds and applied in pilot projects have not yet achieved large-scale outreach. Optimists still believe this will happen; sceptics...

Chapter 11

The Quest for Advocates: Exploring the Missing Political Good Will for E-Democracy in Europe (pages 224-245)

Harald Mahrer

Throughout the world, democratic countries, whether old, new, or in transition, are facing innovations in communications and information technology. Especially within developed economies, the challenge toward e-democracy through the...

Chapter 12

E-Gov Research 2003-2006: Improvements and Issues (pages 247-268)

Åke Grönlund, Annika Andersson

This chapter follows up on an earlier study (Grönlund, 2004) by assessing the nature of 117 papers from two e-gov (electronic government) conferences, EGOV 05 and HICSS 06, in terms of rigor and relevance criteria using a...

Chapter 13

E-Government Research: Capabilities, Interaction, Orientation, and Values (pages 269-288)

Kim Viborg Andersen, Helle Zinner Henriksen

A comprehensive analysis of 110 peer-reviewed journal papers suggests that the conceptual domains and application areas covered by e-government research focus predominately on capabilities and interactions, whereas value...

Chapter 14

E-Government Adoption in Canadian Municipal Governments: A Survey of Ontario Chief Administrative Officers (pages 289-308)

Christopher G. Reddick

This study examines Ontario, Canada’s municipal e-government adoption. This chapter specifically focuses on how e-government has increased citizen-initiated contacts with these local governments. This study uses survey data of these...

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