New Questions for E-Government: Efficiency but not (yet?) Democracy

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Author(s): Alexandru V. Roman (School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA)and Hugh T. Miller (School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Pages: 17
Source title: International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Nripendra P. Rana (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2013010104

Keywords: Electronic Government / Government & Law / Information Science Reference

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E-government’s rise to prominence in the early 1990s was met with great enthusiasm amidst the promise that information communication technologies (ICTs) might fulfill the demands and expectations for improved democratic governance. Since then, significant progress has been made in terms of information provision and delivery of public services; yet, dialogue, a core dimension of democratic governance, remains largely unrealized within the digital context. This study employs content analysis within the frame of a check-off research protocol to determine if the population of state websites has the capacity to support digital democratic dialogue. The key question is whether there is an emphasis within the milieu of state websites to support e-dialogue outside the provision of information and e-services. The analysis suggests that efficiency rather than dialogue is the primary focus in the design of the state websites. Is, therefore, e-government a new development in the historical effort to enforce efficiency as a core value of governance?

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