Educating Citizens Online about Budgeting: An Empirical Evaluation of Web—Based Citizens Guides to the Budget in Local Governments in the U.S.

摘要：

The primary goal of this exploratory research is to systematically analyze and compare the content and characteristic of web-based citizens guides to the budget in local governments in the U.S., and to assess the extent to which information and communication on the websites facilitate citizens participatory opportunities. In order to achieve my research purposes, the author utilized a qualitative study employing content analysis to analyze the webbased citizens guide to the budget in 20 selected local government websites in the U.S. The findings from this research suggest that accessibility, quality as well as online and offline participatory opportunities involving the content of web-based citizens guide to the budget are varying in degree across the selected local governments websites in U.S.

关键词： Public budgeting Citizen participation Local government websites

作者: CHEN Can

作者单位: Doctoral Student in Public Budgeting and Finance, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)

会议地点: 印度海德拉巴

会议语种:英文

页码: 437-445

在线出版日期: 2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）