Does intelligence explain why nations differ in online political participation?

Sardor Azam

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Wide use of Internet and subsequent development of e-government initiatives have lent support to the emergence of e-platforms for political engagement, a relatively new direction of participatory governance. Although determinants of citizen political participation have been at the core of theoretical and empirical discussions for quite a long time, in this research we contribute to extant literature by investigating the effect of national intelligence, as measured by Lynn and Vanhanen (2012), on the e-participation levels for 192 countries of the world. Our results suggest that higher IQ nations demonstrate higher rates of online presence in political deliberations. A number of robustness tests is undertaken to show that our findings remain intact.

Keywords: IQ; intelligence; political participation; e-participation; ICT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-20
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