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E-Government Development Factors: Evidence from the Russian Regions

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The paper aims at revealing factors influencing the development of e-government in the Russian regions. Based mainly on the innovation diffusion concept we run quantitative analysis, testing the significance of political, technological, socio-economic and administrative variables. Our study shows that the diffusion of e-government itself was to a large extent the result of a vertical influence of the federal government, however, disproportions of e-government performance can better be explained by internal characteristics of the regions. We argue that the key predictors for a more mature e-government are relatively democratic political regime, technological advancement, bureaucracy effective-ness and investment in ICT. The explanatory model could best be expanded by case studies focused on agency rather than the structure.

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The paper was prepared within the framework of the Academic Fund Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in 2016 (grant №. 16-05-0059) and supported within the framework of a subsidy granted to the HSE by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Program.

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  2. Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

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  3. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yury Kabanov

  4. Eotvos University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    George Kampis

  5. Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

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Kabanov, Y., Sungurov, A. (2016). E-Government Development Factors: Evidence from the Russian Regions. In: Chugunov, A., Bolgov, R., Kabanov, Y., Kampis, G., Wimmer, M. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 674. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49700-6_10

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