E-Government in European Countries, a Comparative Approach Using the Principal Components Analysis

Androniceanu Armenia and Irina Georgescu
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Androniceanu Armenia: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Administration and Public Management, Bucharest, Romania.

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 2021, vol. 14, issue 2, 65-86

Abstract: The digitalization of public administration is a necessary condition for the economic and social development of each country. In this context, e-government is developing and diversifying its forms of implementation, contributing significantly to the efficiency of public administration, to increasing the degree of transparency and to reducing corruption in public institutions. The aim of the research was to know how the states of the European Union evolved from the point of view of e-government and what influence it had on the economic development of the analyzed states and on the European citizens during the analyzed period. For this we selected ten research variables from several databases: Eurostat, the World Bank and the United Nations E-Government Development Database (UNeGovDD) of the United Nations. The period for which we did the analysis is 2010 – 2019. Using EViews 12 we applied panel Principal Component Analysis to reduce the 10-variable panel into a lower dimension of 3 principal components to find the underlying simplified structure. The three principal components retained explain about 76.5 % of the initial information. The research results show significant differences between the states analyzed, in terms of e-government, but also in terms of the impact it has on government effectiveness, controlling corruption, e-participation of European citizens and the economic development of Member States. In countries with a high level of e-government implementation, governance is efficient, corruption is low, citizen involvement is higher and economic development is faster.

Keywords: e-government; government effectiveness; public administration; digitalization; panel Principal Component Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/nispa-2021-0015

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