Determinants of E-Democracy Adoption in Turkish Municipalities: An Analysis for Spatial Diffusion Effect

Sobacı, Mehmet Zahid; Eryiğit, Kadir Yasin

doi:10.1080/03003930.2014.995296

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“…Population size has unquestionably the strongest effect on the dependent variable of all the predictors and thereby mirrors the results of what is already known (Borge et al, ; Sobaci & Eryigit, ). In addition, the financial solvency of each municipality reports positive significance in three of the five models.…”

Section: Exploring and Mapping Digital Politics In Swedensupporting

confidence: 83%

“…known (Borge et al, 2009;Sobaci & Eryigit, 2015). In addition, the financial solvency of each municipality reports positive significance in three of the five models.…”

Section: Explaining the Variation In Digital Politicsmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Ceteris paribus, a larger society should have better economic opportunities to develop its online tools in accordance with economies of scale (Viborg Andersen, Henriksen, Secher, & Medaglia, 2007), bearing in mind that financial constraints are experienced as perhaps the top barrier (Norris & Reddick, 2013). Findings from Eastern and Southern Europe (Borge, Colombo, & Welp, 2009;Sobaci & Eryigit, 2015) as well as the United States (Scott, 2006) emphasize population size as a crucial factor for success in digital politics among local-level municipalities. Another argument implies that a smaller population size would reduce motives for and effort in digital politics as closeness is present between political representatives and citizens.…”

Section: Explaining Digital Politics From the Local Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Inequality in Local Digital Politics: How Different Preconditions for Citizen Engagement Can Be Explained

Lidén¹

2016

Policy & Internet

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Digital technologies have struggled to achieve more equal participation in politics, the so‐called “unresolved dilemma of democracy.” Previous research has emphasized the drivers of involvement in digital politics from an individual perspective, but studies looking at the general prerequisites of online engagement in politics are lacking. Not much attention has been directed toward the supply side, namely the online presence of political actors and the structures created by them. Applying a mixed‐method design, this article examines the supply of channels for digital politics distributed by Swedish municipalities. Quantitative data collected from municipality websites are used for both a description and explanation of the varying opportunities for involvement encountered by Swedish citizens as a result of where they live. Two extreme cases are then examined in depth in which preconditions for involvement are particularly weak. We find that significant variation exists between municipalities and that these patterns are explained primarily by population size, but also by economic conditions and education levels. The cases show how a lack of policies and unenthusiastic politicians creates poor possibilities for development. The findings also verify previous notions that without demand from citizens, in combination with internal ambition from politicians, successful provision of services for digital politics will be hard to achieve.

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Section: Exploring and Mapping Digital Politics In Swedensupporting

confidence: 83%

“…known (Borge et al, 2009;Sobaci & Eryigit, 2015). In addition, the financial solvency of each municipality reports positive significance in three of the five models.…”

Section: Explaining the Variation In Digital Politicsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Explaining Digital Politics From the Local Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Inequality in Local Digital Politics: How Different Preconditions for Citizen Engagement Can Be Explained

Lidén¹

2016

Policy & Internet

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“…It usually requires well-developed external network speed, connectivity and stability to ensure the operational performance of e-procurement. Another study [57] argue that municipalities in Turkey with a higher internet penetration rate were more prone to adopt edemocracy practices. System security and safety need to be ensured so that confidentiality breaches and opportunities for corruption can be avoided [49].…”

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Determinants and barriers of e-procurement: A European comparison of public sector experiences

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Cucciniello²,

Nasi³

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Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Despite recent studies on determinants of adoption and diffusion of e-procurement, the existing literature is still scant on how different variables affect eprocurement adoption, diffusion and upscaling by type of adopter. Using qualitative data from interviews, this paper aims at contributing to fill this gap by examining how outer and inner variables influence the adoption and upscaling of e-procurement in two European regions that can be considered as innovators (Valencia in Spain and Lombardy in Italy). Our findings show that 1) the role of inner factors is clearer than that of outer ones in adoption processes, 2) in particular, organizational (mainly slack resources in both cases) and individual determinants seem to be the most important inner factors, 3) change management strategies and activities have a key role in upscaling processes, and 4) the internal organizational context and the type of technological innovation may act as moderators/mediators of the effects.

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“…Local government organisations will be reluctant to adopt IT innovation when there are unclear responsibilities for decision‐making, procedures, and measurement of the impact assessment. As is well known, perceived benefits [30, 34, 38, 42, 44, 45] and cost [29, 32, 34, 38, 42, 45] are among the critical influential technological determinants of IT innovation adoption in a local government context. Local government organisations are interested to adopt a new IT innovation when they perceive many benefits of the innovation to their organisation and enough funding to implement the innovation [30, 38, 42].…”

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Critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption at organisational level in local government context

2019

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Local government may face different challenges in adopting IT innovation due to its unique characteristic in terms of business functions which dealt directly with the citizens, organisational type, structure, and geographic location. To date, although numerous review studies on IT innovation adoption have been carried out, nevertheless there are obvious limitations in a local government context. Hence, this study aims to put forward an explanation for critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption in local government contexts by reviewing related works from the year 2013 to 2017. This study has identified influential technological, organisational, individual, and environmental determinants of IT innovation adoption in a local government context. The most striking finding is that critical influential determinants of IT innovation in local government context were organisational (leadership, governance), technological (perceived benefits, cost), individual (personnel skills), and environmental (policy and regulations, citizen influence). The results from this study will help other researchers to understand the critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption, particularly in a local government context. 2.1 Diffusion of innovations (DOI) DOI theory, developed by [1], is often used to explain IT innovation adoption such as how, why, and what is the adoption rate. DOI theory focuses on the spread of innovation over a time among the members of a social system. The members of the social systems are the adopters, which can be an individual, a group, or an organisation. DOI theory proposed technological factors of IT innovation adoption which are perceived benefits, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability on the adopters.

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Determinants of E-Democracy Adoption in Turkish Municipalities: An Analysis for Spatial Diffusion Effect

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

Inequality in Local Digital Politics: How Different Preconditions for Citizen Engagement Can Be Explained

Inequality in Local Digital Politics: How Different Preconditions for Citizen Engagement Can Be Explained

Determinants and barriers of e-procurement: A European comparison of public sector experiences

Critical influential determinants of IT innovation adoption at organisational level in local government context

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