Digitizing Government interactions with constituents: An historical review of E-Government research in information systems

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 363-394

  Bélanger, France ^a   Carter, Lemuria ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital Government; E Government; Electronic Government; Government to constituent; Historical review

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

DIGITAL GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENTS; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT-TO-CONSTITUENT; HISTORICAL REVIEW;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84862285925     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00295     Document Type: Review

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