The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of Electronic Government Research
(IJEGR)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association
Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2006
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1548-3886
EISSN: 1548-3894
Editor-In-Chief:
Donald Norris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
*EDITORIAL PREFACE:
*Donald F. Norris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
USA
E-government is a scholarship that is still developing. Much
of the
scholarship about e-government lacks the theoretical depth
and scholarly
rigor that we come to take for granted in more established
fields. As
wide ranging as e-government research is, however, two
important areas
within it remain virtually untouched by scholars. The first
is citizen
demand for and uptake of e-government. The second is the
actual
evaluation of various e-government offerings and
applications. This
preface concentrates on motivating researchers who have
completed
studies in these areas to think about submitting their works
to IJEGR.
*RESEARCH PAPERS
PAPER ONE:
*?If You Build a Political Web Site, Will They Come? The
Internet and
Political Activism in Britain?
Pippa Norris, Harvard University, USA
John Curtice, Strathclyde University, UK
This study focuses on the capacity of the Internet for
strengthening
political activism. The first part summarizes debates about
these issues
in the previous literature. This study starts from the
premise that
political activism is a multidimensional phenomenon and that
people need
to understand how different channels of participation relate
to the
social and political characteristics of the online
population. The
second part summarizes the sources of data and the key
measures of
political activism used in this study, drawing upon the
British Social
Attitudes Survey from 2003. The third part examines the
evidence for the
relationship between use of the Internet and patterns of
civic
engagement in the British context. The conclusion summarizes
the results
and considers their broader implications.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.
_http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6056
_*PAPER TWO:
?*Public Administrators?? Acceptance of the Practice of
Digital
Democracy: A Model Explaining the Utilization of Online
Policy Forums in
South Korea?
Chan-Gon Kim, Rutgers University - Newark, USA
Marc Holzer, Rutgers University - Newark, USA
The Internet provides a new digital opportunity for
realizing democracy
in public administration, and this study raises a central
question: What
factors determine public officials? acceptance of the
practice of
digital democracy on government Web sites? The authors focus
on online
policy forums among many practices of digital democracy. To
gauge
public officials? behavioral intentions to use online policy
forums on
government Web sites, they examine individual and
organizational
factors, as well as system characteristics. A survey
questionnaire was
administered to Korean public officials and a total of 895
responses are
analyzed. Implications of this study for practices and
theories of
digital democracy are discussed.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.
_http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6057
_*PAPER THREE:
*?User Attitudes to E-Government Citizen Services in Europe?
Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark
In 2005, the eUSER project undertook a questionnaire survey
covering
about 10,000 households in 10 European Union member states,
the purpose
of which was to provide some of the first systematic
evidence in Europe
of citizen user behavior and their attitudes to the use of
public
services, and particularly the role of e-services in this
context. The
survey focused on a number of themes the public?s use of
government
services, the different channels (or media) employed, the
nature of
potential future demand for e-government, the barriers and
experiences
in using e-government, and the socio-economic attributes of
e-government
users compared with non-users. This article examines the
results which
provide important new information on the role that the
Internet is now
playing in the delivery and take-up of government services
by European
citizens.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link
below.
_http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6058
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this Journal, please recommend IJEGR subscription to your
librarian.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IJEGR:
The mission of the *International Journal of Electronic
Government
Research* is to publish the very best original scholarly
research on the
subject of electronic government, broadly defined, and to
publish top
quality articles about electronic government from the
practice. To this
end, submission of papers from a variety of disciplines and
perspectives
are welcome.
Coverage of IJEGR:
Best practices in electronic government Applications
(government to
citizen; to business; to government)
Governance and electronic democracy
Impacts of electronic government
Information policy
Information security
Information privacy
Information access
Internal government processes and intranets
Measurement of performance
Strategic management of electronic government
Technology adoption and diffusion
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