Understanding the "e-petitioner"

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 319-329

  Cruickshank, Peter ^a   Smith, Colin ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Cognition; Digital democracy; E participation; eDemocracy; EuroPetition; Internet; Petitioning; Self efficacy; Social cognition; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053641655     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17506161111173577     Document Type: Article

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