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IS E‐GOVERNMENT LEADING TO MORE ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS? AN OVERALL VIEW
Author(s) -
Pina Vicente,
Torres Lourdes,
Royo Sonia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
financial accountability and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1468-0408
pISSN - 0267-4424
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2009.00488.x
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , accountability , benchmarking , local government , icts , business , e government , public administration , government (linguistics) , information and communications technology , the internet , political science , marketing , linguistics , computer science , law , philosophy , world wide web
This paper seeks to assess to what extent e‐government enables accountability and transparency in EU local governments. It also provides an overall view about how local governments are implementing ICTs initiatives to bring citizens closer to governments. Although the mere capacity of the Internet for the dissemination of information improves accountability and makes benchmarking easier, our results show that the expected benefits are far from being achieved because e‐government projects are still in the early stages. The results also show that, at present, ICTs have not had a dramatic impact on EU local government accountability.