Measuring the diffusion of eParticipation: A survey on Italian local government

Information Polity

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 265-280

  Medaglia, Rony ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

eDemocracy; eParticipation; local government

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350604945     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ip-2007-0134     Document Type: Article

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