A Economía da Administración Electrónicaapuntamentos xerais e unha aplicación empírica aos concellos galegos
ISSN: 1887-0279, 1887-0287
Year of publication: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 79-94
Type: Article
More publications in: Administración & cidadanía: revista da Escola Galega de Administración Pública
Abstract
This paper deals with electronic government from the perspective of Economics. It begins with some general notes on the topic, focusing particularly on Bannister’s (2007) three-level analysis and Soete and Weehuizen’s (2004) contributions, which view e-government as a promising third way to confront “government failures”. Next, I examine the techniques available to evaluate e-government efficiency. Finally, the paper offers a DEA based two-step efficiency analysis aimed at testing the influence of e-government on the efficiency of Galician municipalities. The analysis results show both the difficulty of statistically assessing this influence and a possible presence of the so-called “IT productivity paradox”.