An Empirical Study of E-Participation Levels in Jordan

Abu-Shanab, Emad; Al-Dalou', Raya

doi:10.4018/ijissc.2016010104

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“…En donde top-down las acciones de participación son dadas por el gobierno y los ciudadanos son considerados como consumidores de estas acciones/políticas y por otro lado el enfoque bottom-up que son todas las acciones presentadas por los ciudadanos quienes son considerados productores de políticas en lugar de solo consumidores como en el nivel anterior. En la siguiente figura se pueden observar cómo funcionan los dos enfoques (Quintero, 2019;Raya Al-Dalou';Abu-shanab, 2013;Van Meerkerk, 2019). De acuerdo con la revisión sistemática de literatura llevada a cabo durante 2019, la mayoría de los estudios de e-Participación se centran en la consulta y la deliberación (Rose & Sanford, 2016;Sanford & Rose, 2007), es decir que, el punto central de e-Participación es el ciudadano, con el propósito de aumentar las capacidades de los ciudadanos para participar en la toma de decisiones (Serov & Leitner, 2017).…”

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The Impact of Administrator Willingness on Website E-Participation: Some Evidence from Municipalities

Zheng

Schachter

2017

Public Performance & Management Review

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Methodology for the evaluation of e-Participation software toolsThis master thesis presents the research conducted to obtain the Methodology for the Evaluation of e-Participation Software -MESeP, designed to apply to any e-Participation software tool if access to information is available.This research emerges as a response to some lacks identified. On the one hand, there is a lack of rigorousness in the definition of evaluation stages for e-participation software tools. Another is a lack of precise identification of information systems functionalities for citizen participation. On the other hand, there are no methodologies for evaluating eparticipation software tools, leading to two guiding questions translated into two systematic literature reviews SLR. The first SLR identified characteristics and factors associated with e-Participation software tools. The second one identified variables and indicators. Then, the factors were associated with the determined variables and the indicators. An expert judgement analyzed the first version of the methodology. After the expert judgement, a refinement process was carried out, resulting in the final version of the MESeP, which has four phases and eight activities and the nine factors, 23 variables, and 64 indicators identified.

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The Impact of Administrator Willingness on Website E-Participation: Some Evidence from Municipalities

Zheng

Schachter

2017

Public Performance & Management Review

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“…Jordan, like many other developing countries, introduced e-democracy initiatives such as "Bekhedmetkom" platform to enable citizens to participate in its democratic process. Research indicated that e-democracy initiatives are lagging in Jordan and face many challenges (Abu-Shanab et al, 2018;Abu-Shanab and Al-Dalou, 2016). Their findings emphasized the fact that Jordan is lagging behind in utilizing ICT for opening the e-participation channels.…”

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Predictors for the adoption of e-democracy: an empirical evaluation based on a citizen-centric approach

Hujran

Abu-Shanab

Aljaafreh

2020

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Purpose This study aims to explore the factors influencing the intention to use e-democracy. The literature depicted conflicting results regarding such domain and especially in the Middle East, where the authors aim at establishing a solid view of the discipline. Design/methodology/approach A research model was developed based on the theory of planned behavior, technology acceptance model and unified theory for acceptance and use of technology-2. The model hypothesized that perceived public value (PPV), ease of use and enjoyment are major antecedents of attitudes, and subjective norms (SNs), perceived behavioral control (PBC) and attitudes are significant predictors of behavioral intentions. A quantitative cross-sectional design was used. A questionnaire was used to explore Jordanian citizens’ perceptions regarding the research model constructs. A sample of 302 Jordanian citizens filled the surveys based on their awareness of e-democracy concepts and their willingness to participate in the study. This study uses the structural equation modeling approach with partial least square as an analysis method. Findings Findings indicated that PPV, perceived ease of use and enjoyment jointly determine the attitudes of citizens toward e-democracy. Results also suggest that attitudes, PBC and SNs have a significant effect on citizen’s intention to use e-democracy. Finally, this research supported the role of enjoyment as the most significant determinant of citizen’s attitude toward using e-democracy. Research limitations/implications This study is limited by its small sample size and newly developed Arabic instrument. Still, results imply that more research is needed to replicate and validate the instrument and support the role of the selected research constructs. Public institutions are required to make e-democracy applications enjoyable and easy to use. They also need to demonstrate its value to the public. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is one of the few studies to explore e-democracy and the first to conduct an empirical study (survey-based) in Jordan. The foundation of the study depended on three robust theories in the technology adoption theories.

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“…The main definition and objective of e-government reported by many researchers is to provide an enhanced service utilizing ICT or the Internet [1]- [6]. Such definition lacks the overall perspective of e-government, where more focus towards e-democracy and public participation is embedded [7], [8]. On the other hand, the perspective of social contribution of e-government was introduced through the improvement of social life of citizens [9]- [12], and the digital divide [13].…”

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Global Competitiveness Improvement: E-Government as a Tool

Abu-Shanab¹

2016

IJIMT

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The major objective of this study is to know if the development in e-government will support the global competitiveness of a country. This study utilized two famous indices for this purpose: the first is the United Nations' egovernment readiness index (UN-EGRI) and the second is the global competitiveness index (GCI) published by the World Economic Forum. An association was estimated between the sub-dimensions of the UN-EGRI and the GCI. Results supported our premise with a highly significant correlation between the two indices and a significant correlation between all e-government sub-dimensions and the GCI. Finally, only the ICT infrastructure and the web index significantly predicted the GCI, and the human capital and participation did not. This study is the first to compare the two metrics (UN-EGRI & GCI) and to link the competitiveness measure to egovernment development on a global scale. Conclusions are stated at the end.

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An Empirical Study of E-Participation Levels in Jordan

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

The Impact of Administrator Willingness on Website E-Participation: Some Evidence from Municipalities

The Impact of Administrator Willingness on Website E-Participation: Some Evidence from Municipalities

Predictors for the adoption of e-democracy: an empirical evaluation based on a citizen-centric approach

Global Competitiveness Improvement: E-Government as a Tool

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