Designing Web Technologies for Local Governance Reform: Good Management or Good Democracy?

Political Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-19

  Musso, Juliet ^a   Weare, Christopher ^a   Hale, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Democracy; Internet; Local government; Management reform; Municipal service delivery; Municipalities; Political reform; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041029638     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/105846000198486     Document Type: Article

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