Introduction: Parties at the Grassroots

Electronic Government at the American Grassroots - 2002

Advancing E-Government at the Grassroots: Tortoise or Hare?

American grassroots governments have rushed to join the e-government revolution. Although there is a growing body of e-government literature, little of it is empirical. Using data from two nationwide surveys, we conduct a longitudinal examination of local government adoption of egovernment, Web site sophistication, the perceived impacts of e-government, and barriers to the adoption and sophisti...

GIS Implementation in the Grassroots

Sieber 15 Introduction Increasingly nonprofits are following the lead of public agencies and private industry by implementing a GIS. They are drawn to a GIS because it can combine large amounts of data from disparate sources and on different media, order them into layers or themes, and analyze or display various relationships. The greater promise of the technology, to nonprofits such as grassro...

MEASURING THE GRASSROOTS: Puzzles of Cultivating the Grassroots from the Top Down

Does a participatory, open-ended organizational format inspire creativity and draw on participants' local knowledge? Many nonprofits operate under this assumption, and many of their financial sponsors agree, and therefore demand precise accounts documenting the nonprofits' "participatory" formats. In the U.S. youth civic engagement projects described here, the practice of accounting itself had ...

Grassroots and Digital Branches

The politics of the Internet is a common theme in cybertheory, though commentators work with a variety of different notions of the political. Among the main issues are the question of whether the Internet may enhance or detract from the processes of deliberation traditionally seen as crucial to a strong civil society, along with that of whether online voting could usher in an era direct democra...