Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy

Citizens’ evaluations of local democracy: Does the organization of local government make a difference?

Developments observed in many countries have served to place concerns about the quality of local democracy on the political and academic agendas of many observers and commentators in recent years. Declining electoral participation and party membership, difficulties in finding people who are willing to stand for elected political office, and indications of declining confidence and trust in polit...

Quality of Government and Epistemic Democracy

Democracy as an overall model for how societies should be governed has been a remarkable success over the last forty years. More countries than ever are now considered to be democratic or at least on their way to becoming democracies (Diamond 2007, Teorell 2010). Various international organizations that have democracy promotion on their agenda should nowadays be very content since there are cer...

E-Government and Democracy in Russia

Against the backdrop of creeping authoritarianism by the Putin administration, this paper examines whether or not Russian efforts to enact e-government are enhancing, inhibiting, or neutral towards the establishment of preconditions for democracy in Russia. Eighty official regional governmental websites in 2003 and 85 in 2004 are examined to benchmark their contents according to a set of measur...

Democracy, essential element of the electronic government

— This paper emphasizes a determinant aim of identifying different approaches, as comparing to the education and democracy ways specific to e-government system. Introducing the information technology should offer the possibility by which reform processes of the government should become more efficient, transparent and much more public for the citizens; in this way, their ability of participating...

Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?