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Abstract
This article aims to analyse the extent to which metropolitan and provincial municipalities in Turkey take advantage of the opportunities offered by information and communications technologies to strengthen democracy and to evaluate the factors affecting the e-democracy adoption of municipalities in Turkey within the framework of spatial data analysis. In this context, this study tries to contribute distinctively to the local e-democracy literature by focusing on the investigation of whether there are any spatial effects on e-democracy adoption of municipalities in Turkey. The findings of our analysis show that while being the members of the same political party and geographical contiguity do not have any impact, the variables of size, status, budget and Internet penetration have impacts on the level of e-democracy adoption of municipalities in Turkey.
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1. The current status is that there are 30 metropolitan municipalities and 51 provincial municipalities in Turkey.
2. The standardisation process relating to the weights is carried out by dividing the number of adjacency by the weight value. Thus, weights are standardised so that the sum of rows is ‘1’. Hence, this process is called ‘row standardisation’.
3. Likewise, the estimation procedure for SEM is based on ML as well and is similar to the estimation procedure for the cross-section SEM (see Anselin Citation1988; Henley Citation2005).
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Notes on contributors
Mehmet Zahid Sobaci
Mehmet Zahid Sobaci is an Associate Professor at the department of Public Administration, Uludağ University, Turkey. His research interests include local governments, administrative reform and e-government. Previous research of his has been published in journals such as Government Information Quarterly, Information Polity, and Public Organization Review. He is also the editor of E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons.
Kadir Y. Eryigit
Kadir Y. Eryigit is an Associate Professor at the Department of Econometrics, Uludağ University, Turkey. His research interests include multivariate time series analysis and cointegration, spatial econometrics, international monetary economics, financial economics, defense economics, and regulatory economics. He has carried out some research of an applied nature into Turkish and world economy in the area of financial development.