E-Governance to cut corruption in public service delivery: A case study of Fiji

International Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 415-437

  Pathak, Raghuvar Dutt ^a   Naz, Rafia ^a   Rahman, Mohammed Habibur ^b   Smith, Robert Frederick Ingram ^c   Nayan Agarwal, Kamal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; E Governance; IT (information technology)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650511223     PISSN: 01900692     EISSN: 15324265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01900690902799482     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Bassanini, F. (2003) Fifth Global Forum on Reinventing Government November 3-7, 2003. Good Governance Strategies: A Prospect for Integration Reflections from the Italian Experience, Good Government Strategies for the 21st Century, Mexico
2. Bhatnagar, S. (2003) The economic and social impact of e-government. A Background Technical Paper for the Proposed UNDESA Publication-E-Government, the Citizen and the State: Debating Governance in the Information Age
3. Cho, Y. H. and Choi, B. D. (2004) E-government to combat corruption: The case of Seoul metropolitan government. International Journal of Public Administration, 27:10, pp. 719-735.
4. Crocombe, R. (2001) The South Pacific, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
5. Hong-Bin, Kang (2001) Cleaning Up the City Government of Seoul: A Systematic Approach. Presentation Delivered at the Anti-Corruption Symposium on The Role of On-Line Procedures in Promoting Good Governance Seoul, South Korea Seoul Institute for Transparency, p. 43.
6. Klitgaard, R. (1988) Controlling corruption, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
7. Klitgaard, R. (1996) Bolivia: Heating sick institutions in La Paz. Governance and the economy in Africa: Tool for analysis and reform of corruption, Center for Institution Reform and the Informal Sector, College Park, MD
8. Kudo, H. (2004) Information, Knowledge and Management: Re-Assessing the Role of ICTs in Public and Private Organizations. E-Government as an Instrument of Public Sector Reform and the Accountability Issue: How to Guarantee Accountability in the Public Sector, pp. 3-5. Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA), Bologna, Italy
9. Larmour, P. (1997) Corruption and governance in the South Pacific. Pacific Studies, 20:3
10. Naidu, V. and Barr, K. (2002) Comment on Poverty for Fiji Update. Paper Presented to the "Fiji Update 2002," June 12, by the National Centre for Development Studies, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, the Australian National University and the University of the South Pacific
11. Naz, R., Pathak, R. D., Rahman, M. H., Agarwal, Kamal N. and Smith, R. F. I. (2006) The Potential for Using It to Cut Corruption in Service Delivery: A Case Study of Services to Farmers in Fiji. unpublished paper
12. Pierre Cf., J. and Peters, B. G. (2000) Governance, politics and the state, pp. 50-69. St. Martin's Press, New York
13. Prahalad, C. K. (2005) The Fortune of the Bottom of the Pyramid. Eradicating poverty through profits, Wharton School Publishing, Philadelphia
14. Rose-Ackerman, S. (1973) The economic theory of agency: The principal's problem. American Economic Review, 62:2, pp. 134-139.
15. Rose-Ackerman, S. (1978) Corruption: A study in political economy, Academic Press, New York
16. Rose-Ackerman, S. (1994) Reducing Bribery in the Public Sector. Corruption and Democracy, Budapest Institute For Constitutional and Legislative Policy
17. USP Beat (2002) Fiji Poverty follows Corruption and Bad Governance, 2:10
18. Wolfensohn, J. (1999) Reforming public institutions and strengthening governance: A World Bank strategy. Vol. 1, Overall strategy, World Bank, Washington, DC