Home (Page) Style: Determinates of the Quality of the House Members' Web Sites

International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR)

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 50-63

  Esterling, Kevin ^a   Lazer, David M J ^b   Neblo, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congress United States; digital government; representation; statistical models; Web site quality measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001544022     PISSN: 15483886     EISSN: 15483894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2005040103     Document Type: Article

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