A study of e-participation projects in third-wave democracies

International Journal of Electronic Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 302-327

  Coleman, Stephen ^a   Kaposi, Ildikó ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF KUWAIT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

E democracy; E participation case studies; New democracies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881501203     PISSN: 17427509     EISSN: 17427517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2009.030524     Document Type: Article

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