An overview assessment of ePetitioning tools in the English local government

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6847 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 204-215

  Panagiotopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Moody, Christopher ^a   Elliman, Tony ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eParticipation adoption; eParticipation policy; ePetitions; Impact assessment; Institutional factors; UK local government; Web content analysis

Indexed keywords

E-PARTICIPATION; EPETITIONS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; WEB CONTENT ANALYSIS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

RATING;

EID: 80052749920     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23333-3_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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