An Empirical Model of the Adoption of Web-Enabled Governmental Services

Abstract

The study examines the impact of bureaucratic corruption, economic freedom, and e-government readiness on the probability of having in place transactional e-government or Web-enabled transactions for public services. The study uses a logistic regression model and aggregate data on a cross-section of countries to investigate this relationship. The principal finding of the study is that a high level of a country's corruption reduces the probability of having transactional e-government whereas the presence of economic freedom and high levels of e-government readiness enhance such probability.Keywords: Corruption, Transactional E-Government, E-Government Readiness, Economic Freedom