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Administration & Society, Vol. 31, No. 1, 3-27 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/009539999400935475

Electronic Democracy and the Diffusion of Municipal Web Pages in California

Christopher Weare

University of Southern California

Juliet A. Musso

University of Southern California

Matthew L. Hale

University of Southern California

Although the Internet has been touted as a means to improve democratic governance, there has been little systematic analysis of its use. The authors analyze the diffusion of municipal Web sites that include information concerning a specific locality. The analysis is based on demographic and fiscal data from 454 California cities and two surveys of Web site adoption. The authors’ theoretical framework draws from the political economy and technology diffusion literatures. City size, government resources, concentration of social-economic elites, and voter registration levels are the most significant predictors of adoption. In contrast to previous adoption studies, the authors find that liberal political ideology and experience with advanced communication technologies do not appreciably increase the probability of adoption.


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