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E-Government and Transparency: The Degree of Interactivity and Openness of Italian Municipalities

E-Government and Transparency: The Degree of Interactivity and Openness of Italian Municipalities
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Author(s): Maria Cucciniello (Bocconi University, Italy), Greta Nasi (Bocconi University, Italy)and Raffaella Saporito (Bocconi University, Italy)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 23
Source title: Managing E-Government Projects: Concepts, Issues, and Best Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stephen Kwamena Aikins (University of South Florida, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0086-7.ch013

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Abstract

Governmental transparency is a highly regarded value, often studied by academics and emphasized by practitioners. In literature, transparency is discussed as a tool for enhancing the accountability of governments, as a principle to be implemented in order to reduce corruption in public administration, and as a means for making information on government performance more readily available. This chapter drafts a framework aimed at measuring the degree of governmental transparency and interactivity based on the multiple dimensions of information published on the institutional websites of municipalities. The framework has been tested on a purposive sample composed of the 21 municipalities in Italy’s regional capital cities. The results show that they primarily display information about what they do, how they use resources, whereas acknowledgement of government performance with regard to service delivery is still scarce.

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