Title: Public Sector E-Innovations. The impact of e-government on corruption.
Abstract: The paper aims at assessing innovations in the public sector, which were introduced by selected countries by 2009-2010 in the sphere of e-government, and the interrelation of egovernment with corruption. Although it is universally acknowledged that corruption is an evil, there is much debate over which determinants of corruption are important. Using statistical and econometric analysis for sizeable country samples the authors verified an inter-relation between individual and aggregated e-government and ICT development indicators, such as online services quality and ICT usage, on one hand, and the level of perceived public sector corruption, on the other hand. The major international rankings were analyzed, along with key policy documents and web-resources of the selected countries. A few country cases of geographically extensive states from different world regions with substantial powers delegated from the center to regions - Canada, the UK, Mexico and Russia - were selected to illustrate the findings. In the conclusion the authors explore possible causal and dependency relations of the established interlink between e-government and public sector corruption. Suggestions for ways of advancing user-focused e-government practice are put forward, as well as recommendations for overcoming measurement constraints caused by the limited availability of internationally comparable data on the e-government demand-side.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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