Purpose – To develop a model that can explain the “government to e-government” transition process. Design/methodology/approach – Reviews the literature on and practice of e-government, as well as the related literature of strategic alignment and maturity models for technology adoption. Offers evidence for the model’s validity through case-type material from the web sites of e-governments worldw...

this paper examines the idea that the rate of inflation tends to increase nominal government expenditures faster than government revenues. it concludes that while government expenditures rise concurrently with inflation, real government revenues tend to fall based on collection tags. empirical results using time series data for iran support our expectations in which the longer is the delay in g...

This paper considers appropriate debt funding strategies for state and municipal governments in the presence of a positive, tax-exempt term premium. The correlation between a measure of income from rate-sensitive assets and the tax-exempt floating rate is the principal focus of the analysis. A single period framework is used to identify the most important information required to design the opti...

This article proposes that understanding public employee use of performance information is perhaps the most pressing challenge for scholarship on performance management. Governments have devoted extraordinary effort in creating performance data, wagering that it will be used to improve governance, but there is much we do not know about the factors associated with the use of that information. Th...

Australian federal and state governments were advised several years ago that an influenza pandemic would overwhelm Australian public reference laboratories. It was proposed at the time that currently underused capacity in the private sector be used to enhance pandemic responses. The current outbreak of pandemic influenza has confirmed the predictions of advisors from the private sector. Future ...

Themove from cash to accruals accounting bymany governments is viewed as an aspect of an ongoing New Public Management agenda designed to achieve a more business-like and performance-focused public sector. Proponents argue that accruals accounting provides more appropriate information for decision makers and ultimately leads to a more efficient and effective public sector. The transition from c...

ــــ There are some great innovations in egovernment during the past decade, and there is intense competition between some governments and leaders in the supply of services on the internet. Some countries do not want to stay behind in this area, where many governments have developed detailed strategies to realize the e-government systems, but there is a problem facing these governments which la...

A fundamental requirement for making sustainable improvements to rural infrastructure is a clear understanding of who will finance maintenance and capital improvements. In the past the question of financing rural roads has centered primarily on the role of governments. Given the acute scarcity of financial and human resources in most developing countries, there are simply too many kilometers of...

"Fend-for-yourself federalism" as opposed to "new federalism" is the term now used to more precisely describe the federal government's policies that are presently impacting small local governments. It isn't that rural communities are being ignored; on the contrary, they are recognized as a vital link in carrying out national policy. A third of the nation's population lives in communities with 2...

Effective e-government is becoming an important aim for many governments around the world. Within this context this paper aims to review and reorganize the previous work about e-government such as: e-government definition, types, advantages and barriers to e-government. It provides essential background knowledge to the research subject, as well as highlighting the main concepts of e-government.