Towards building an integrated perspective on e-democracy

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 612-632

  Parvez, Zahid ^a   Ahmed, Pervaiz ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Japanese Management Research Unit   (Japan)

^c Centre for Enterprise Excellence   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E democracy; E governance; Informatization; Structuration theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750341051     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180600965609     Document Type: Review

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