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Electronic Democracy at the American Grassroots

Electronic Democracy at the American Grassroots

Donald F. Norris
Copyright: © 2005 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 14
ISSN: 1548-3886|EISSN: 1548-3894|ISSN: 1548-3886|EISBN13: 9781615202669|EISSN: 1548-3894|DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2005070101
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Norris, Donald F. "Electronic Democracy at the American Grassroots." IJEGR vol.1, no.3 2005: pp.1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/jegr.2005070101

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Norris, D. F. (2005). Electronic Democracy at the American Grassroots. International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), 1(3), 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/jegr.2005070101

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Norris, Donald F. "Electronic Democracy at the American Grassroots," International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) 1, no.3: 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/jegr.2005070101

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Abstract

In this paper, I examine the delivery of electronic democracy (e-democracy) by U.S. local governments through their e-government activities. In particular, I examine three issues related to local e-democracy through data from focus groups with officials from 37 municipal and county governments across the U.S. The issues are: (1) why local governments decided to adopt e-government, and whether e-democracy was among the reasons for its adoption; (2) whether e-government has produced or affected local e-democracy; and (3) what plans, if any, local governments have with respect to e-democracy in coming years. My principal findings are that e-government at the local level was adopted principally to deliver governmental information and services and to provide citizen access to governmental officials; that e-government does not operate in a manner that either produces or impacts local e-democracy (at least as the term is broadly defined herein); and that e-democracy is not on the radar screens of most American local governments for future deployment.

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