A framework to evaluate political party websites

EISTA 2006 - 4th Int. Conf. on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications, Jointly with SOIC 2006 - 2nd Int. Conf. on SOIC and PISTA 2006 - 4th Int. Conf. on PISTA, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 226-231

  Lappas, Georgios ^a   Yannas, Prodromos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

E Democracy; E Government; E Politics; Political communication; Political marketing; Web Evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARKETING; PUBLIC POLICY; WEBSITES;

E-DEMOCRACY; E-GOVERNMENT; E-POLITICS; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL MARKETINGS; WEB EVALUATIONS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 49949088099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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