Issues and strategies for conducting cross-national e-government comparative research

Abstract

This paper addresses and discusses the central issues that researchers have to deal with when conducting crossnational comparative research within the area of egovernment. The issues are classified into two main categories. The first category represents the issues and challenges that may affect the reliability and the quality of data being collected for comparative studies. The second category represents the remaining issues related to the research objective, the selection process of countries and the analytical strategy. The paper discusses the major alternatives of these issues and provides a rationale for the selection process among them. The paper concludes by discussing the interrelations between the identified issues and clarifying the main decisions that researchers have to take when conducting cross-national comparative research.

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