A review of the European Union eParticipation action pilot projects

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-19

  Koussouris, Sotirios ^a   Charalabidis, Yannis ^b   Askounis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Communication technologies; Democracy; European Union; Information technology; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952791962     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17506161111114617     Document Type: Review

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