The impact of electronic government on democracy: E-democracy through e-participation

Electronic Government

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-88

  Spirakis, Grigorios ^a   Spiraki, Christina ^b   Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos ^c  

^a Ministry of Economy and Finance   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Nafplio   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

E democracy; E government; E participation; Electronic voting.; ICT; Information and communication technologies; Information policy; Public dialogue

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957689307     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2010.029892     Document Type: Article

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