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Experiences of E-Government Development Implementation in Developing Countries: Challenges and Solutions Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Democratizing Government: What We Know About E-Government and Civic Engagement

Author : Nina David

Published in: International E-Government Development

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Civic engagement is an ideal that is sought after as the fundamental basis of democratic societies. Civic engagement is, however, difficult to attain both from the perspective of citizens’ willingness and ability to participate and government’s ability to generate such engagement. E-government can play a role in enhancing civic engagement by allowing more and better opportunities for the same. In this chapter, I explore the theoretical and empirical literature on civic engagement, e-government, and their interaction. In the process, I identify key debates surrounding civic engagement through e-government, reveal some of the nuances associated with it, and through an operationalization of civic engagement through e-government, highlight the tools and techniques that are used to achieve it.

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Footnotes
1
See (Bachen et al. 2008) for a conceptualization of youth civic engagement.
 
2
See (Kennedy 2007) for a list of public participation techniques and see (Coleman 1999) for a different version of this conceptualization.
 
3
One source for scholars interested in evaluating cases of participation in e-Governance is “Participedia,”which serves as a portal for decentralized collaborative decision making. It contains a roster of participatory governance cases from around the world. Please see: http://​participedia.​net/​en. For a peer reviewed assessment of the Participedia project, see Fung and Warren (2011).
 
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Metadata
Title
Democratizing Government: What We Know About E-Government and Civic Engagement
Author
Nina David
Copyright Year
2018
Book
International E-Government Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63283-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-63284-1

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63284-1_4

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