[Asis-l] IJEGR Volume 2 Issue 2

Tue Jun 13 12:18:44 EDT 2006

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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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) in your
Institution's library. If your library is not currently subscribed to
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

Interested authors should consult the Journal's manuscript
submission guidelines at _http://www.idea-group.com/_
<http://www.idea-group.com/ijegr>_ijegr <http://www.idea-group.com/ijegr>_

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
_ijegr at umbc.edu_

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