E-Government: Trends and Sophistication at the Local Level of Government

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

Tony Wohlers¹ 

[1] Cameron University 2800 W. Gore Blvd. Lawton, OK 73505;

关键词: assessing e-government sophistication;    E-government;    municipalities;    E-democracy;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Innovations in information communication technologies have contributed to new forms of interaction between governments and citizens in the United States and other industrialized democracies. The adoption of these technologies at different levels of government has contributed to the emergence of electronic-government or e-government designed to communicate information, deliver services, and offer additional avenues designed to interact with and participate in government. Based on a detailed content analysis of government websites in conjunction with descriptive and multiple regression approaches, this study assesses and explains the level of egovernment sophistication at the local level of government across different States in the United States. The study argues that local e-government sophistication increases for municipalities governed by professional managers, endowed with more organizational resources, characterized by higher socioeconomic levels, increasing population size, and located in the west. While the findings support the hypothesis, the descriptive analysis also illustrates that local governments have not fully embraced the potentials of e-government.

【 授权许可】

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