Open Accesse-Democracy: Exploring the Current Stage of e-Government
Author(s) -
Toni G.L.A. van der Meer,
Dave Gelders,
Sabine Rotthier
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of information policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2381-5892
pISSN - 2158-3897
DOI - 10.5325/jinfopoli.4.2014.489
Subject(s) - democracy , openness to experience , transparency (behavior) , government (linguistics) , political science , focus (optics) , public administration , order (exchange) , e democracy , key (lock) , public relations , business , politics , psychology , computer science , law , social psychology , computer security , physics , philosophy , finance , linguistics , optics
Governments around the world have been pressured to implement e-Government programs in order to improve the government-citizen dialogue. The authors of this article review prior literature on such efforts to find if they lead to increased democratic participation (“e-Democracy”) for the affected citizens, with a focus on the key concepts of transparency, openness, and engagement. The authors find that such efforts are a starting point toward e-Democracy, but the journey is far from complete.
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