Title
E-government discourses: An inductive analysis
Abstract
This article offers a new perspective on e-government by documenting the categories of e-government discourses, and evaluating them within a public value framework. Understanding e-government discourses is significant, since these discourses represent contested visions of e-government, and one can derive a feel for public sentiment about e-government from the discourses used in the media. The findings are accumulated through an inductive analysis of 85 newspaper articles, published during the year of 2010, in three top-selling, ideologically different, nationally circulating Turkish newspapers. In these 85 articles, 98 discourses presented by 90 policy actors are found. Five positive and four negative discourse categories and their relationships emerged from the analysis of the data. The results show that, government reform efforts shaped by the New Public Management movement and Turkey's harmonization efforts with the global political system in general, and with the European Union in particular, are influential in the presentation of e-government projects to the Turkish public through newspapers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.giq.2012.10.007
Government Information Quarterly
Keywords
Field
DocType
E-government,Discourse analysis,Public value,Government reform,New public management,European Union,Turkey
Public administration,Political system,Turkish,Sociology,Public relations,Newspaper,Discourse analysis,Public value,New public management,Government,European union
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
2
0740-624X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.62
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
mete yildiz1120.62
aysegul saylam2120.62