Assessment of the Turkish Local e-Governments: An Empirical Study

Aykut Arslan

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Abstract: In this research, we first evaluated the current practices of the Turkish local e-governments. Then, building upon an earlier study of local e-governments in Europe (Key Elements for Electronic Local Authorities’ Networks [KEeLAN], 2002), we compared the Turkish local e-government stages with their European counterparts to give a broader perspective. The basic framework focuses on the evaluation of current practices on the supply side (government), rather than the demand side (citizen). The emphasis of this research is on the evaluation of each web site in terms of nine basic public services (additional sub-services available) comprised of policy making, economic development, personal documents, credit and loans/financial support, education, building permits, environment, culture and leisure, and information dissemination. It is assumed that at least four of those services (randomly) are supplied in a local context among the Member Countries, including Turkey. We suggest the results might provide a deeper understanding of local e-governments in Turkey and lend support to advances in this under-researched area.

Keywords: Local government; local e-government; e-government; e-municipality; e-service; e-Europe; e-Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 H11 H7 R5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in International Journal of Human Sciences 2.5(2008): pp. 1-20

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