My new journal article: “Explaining the Failure of an Online Citizen Engagement Initiative: The Role of Internal Institutional Variables”

This article presents an exploratory case study based on fieldwork consisting of in-depth, semistructured interviews and group discussions with administrative, legal, political, and technology staff involved in an online citizen engagement initiative in “TechCounty,” a pseudonymous U.S. local government authority operating in one of the most favorable sociodemographic and technological contexts imaginable.

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