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The Economic, Political and Social Determinants of Electronic Government Adoption
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Margetis, Iris Marianna
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Year and Degree
2020, BS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Abstract
Electronic government, also known as e-government, refers to the use of information technology (IT) to advance the competence, effectiveness, intelligibility, and accountability of public governments (Kraemer and King 2006). Moreover, effective and efficient e-Gov is nowadays viewed as a necessity created by the increased and widespread use of ICT in the private sector. However, access to the internet and/or the technological infrastructure that e-government deployment warrants does not necessarily guarantee that the various governments will be willing to adopt e-government; and this is precisely what this thesis will seek to investigate. That is, the aim of this thesis is to identify the political, economic, and cultural determinants which seem to be important for the decision of a government to adopt e-government services. In doing so, a cross-national empirical study using Entity and Time Fixed Effects will be conducted, consisting of 215 country observations and covering the time period from 2003 to 2018. We argue that the size of a nation's shadow economy, as well as its levels of economic development, political instability, political polarization, corruption, connectivity, and levels of trust that a country's citizenry holds in its government, along with a nation's age demographics and political authority pattern, all play a significant role in a government's decision to adopt and invest in the deployment and development of e-government services. It is found that the factors that appear to promote adoption are a smaller shadow economy, greater democracy, less political polarization, greater trust in government, younger population and greater connectivity. Therefore, our results suggest that political reforms that would promote government transparency, more democratic institutions, as well as lower polarization, would lead to more e-government adoption. The main innovations of this thesis are that it is the only study, to the best of our knowledge, that seeks to understand what are the factors that drive governments to decide to implement e-government services, in contrast with the literature that has focused almost entirely on citizens' incentives for adoption, and in that we more comprehensively examined potential motivators by conducting a cross-national empirical study, which in turn contributed in filling a significant gap in the existing literature, granted that empirical studies were absent.
Committee
Michael Ellis (Advisor)
Gabriella Paar-Jakli (Committee Member)
Nasr El-bahnasawy (Committee Member)
Alison Smith (Committee Member)
Pages
66 p.
Subject Headings
Economics
Keywords
E-government
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adoption factors
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government incentives
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Margetis, I. M. (2020).
The Economic, Political and Social Determinants of Electronic Government Adoption
[Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1588077338892202
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Margetis, Iris.
The Economic, Political and Social Determinants of Electronic Government Adoption .
2020. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1588077338892202.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Margetis, Iris. "The Economic, Political and Social Determinants of Electronic Government Adoption ." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1588077338892202
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