Generic Mechanisms Influencing e-Initiative Adoptions: Perceptions of Key Actors

Mark Liptrott ()
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Mark Liptrott: Edge Hill University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Measuring E-government Efficiency, 2014, pp 93-110 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter draws on research into variables influencing Election Officers’ decision-making on e-voting adoption in the UK with additional data from a senior executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA). The qualitative research underpinned by the realist paradigm focused on the 2003 and 2007 e-voting pilot programmes. Following a review of relevant literature, the enquiry involved a series of semi-structured interviews with samples of Election Officers in authorities that joined the 2003 and 2007 pilot programmes and a sample of those who had declined to join. An interview with a senior executive of the AEA verified the findings. The results suggest a series of broad-based lessons that can be used to better inform e-government policy design. The lessons result from the limitations in the pilot evaluation strategy which failed to identify reasons that local authorities declined participation in the e-voting pilot programme. The conclusion suggests that the values and beliefs of actors involved in local e-policy adoption decision-making are pivotal. It further suggests that there are practical steps that, if taken by policymakers, have the potential to address mechanisms that influence against voluntary e-government policy adoption.

Keywords: Local Authority; Central Government; Pilot Programme; Voter Turnout; Vote Method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9982-4_6

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