NDLI: Internet-Based Citizen Participation: Do Municipal Website Contents Reflect Officials’ Beliefs and Funding?

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Internet-Based Citizen Participation: Do Municipal Website Contents Reflect Officials’ Beliefs and Funding?

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Aikins, Stephen Kwamena
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The purpose of this chapter is to determine whether local government officials’ beliefs in Internet-based citizen participation and funding for online participation are reflected in the deliberative features of their local government websites. Advocates for citizen participation argue that citizen involvement in democracy will produce more citizen-supported decision making on the part of administrators and a better appreciation of the larger community among the public (Stivers, 1990; Oldfield, 1990; Box, 1998). Some scholars argue improved citizen participation could halt the deterioration of public trust and hostility toward the government (King and Stivers, 1998). Thomas (1995) argues citizen involvement is intended to produce better decisions, and thus more efficiency benefits to the rest of society. The above-mentioned benefits notwithstanding, incorporating citizen input into public decision making could have social and economic costs if aBstract
Starting Page	228
Ending Page	248
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.4018/978-1-61692-018-0.ch014
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-018-0.ch014
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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