Recent research on the usage of electronic markets in Digital government has mostly focused on the government’s Executive branch. The paper discusses three conceptual concerns that obstruct the broader application of electronic market mechanisms to the Legislative branch of the government instead. A systematic examination of these concerns shows that most of them can be addressed with little ef...

This article examines the undemocratic process of telecommunications divestment in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The divestment of the telecommunications sector was largely prompted by each state’s inability to service external debt. Despite espousing the importance of public participation in the ownership of state-owned enterprises being divested, the governments each limited or excluded na...

A raft of United Nations Treaties, European Union Directives and domestic laws oblige governments in 180 + countries to apply the Participative Democratic Model of mainstreaming equalities to public administration by involving those targeted by equality initiatives at all stages in their design and delivery. Notwithstanding Participative Democratic Model's deeply political nature, extant work h...

This paper explores the building of administrative and democratic institutions of local government in newly emerging democracies in parts of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. It covers the period through 2005. It studies the main objectives and achievements of the various reforms aimed at local government systems in Russia, Poland and Romania. The overall findi...

The provision of education and training to all Kenyans is fundamental to Governments overall development strategy. Kenya’s human resource is central to the country attaining its goal of industrial development and technological advancement. Universal access to basic education and training ensures equity for all children to enroll in schools including the disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. Educ...

Anxiety is rising among mass publics and analysts of governance about whether democratic governments can cope with the policy problems now facing them (Schäfer and Streeck 2013; Berggruen and Gardels 2013). Trust in American government is at a low ebb and more than two thirds of voters in many parts of Europe express dissatisfaction with their country’s direction (Pew 2012a; 2012b). Why is ther...

Democracies of the globalised world has been have been striving towards citizen empowerment in the recent decade where E-Governance is perceived as a facilitator. Democratic governments in general feel that being accessible online 24/7 to the average citizen not only makes them transparent, but also empowers the average citizen. In this process, citizen data privacy, information sharing across ...

Widespread concerns exist that new voting technologies invite electoral fraud. In states with a known record of electoral fraud, however, the use of new voting technologies may help reduce the incidence of fraud by automating parts of the voting and counting process. This study shows that the use of optical scan voting systems had a significant effect in terms of fraud reduction during the 2011...

How do political institutions shape government size and redistributional policies? An empirical model proposes a possible framework to evaluate sign and magnitude of the relation. Political institutions are classified in complementary constraints, namely political competition, competition in executive recruitment and constraints on the executive. Results show that the stronger democratic instit...

In early 1999, the Indonesian Electoral Commission (Komisi Pemilu Umum) KPU issued decree number 12 of 1999 on Election Observation and Procedures which identified a role for domestic and foreign observers. Election observers from governments and non-government organisations around the world were invited to seek accreditation from the KPU. Given CDI’s focus on supporting democratic processes an...