From E-Government to Digital Era Governance and Beyond: Lessons from 15 Years of Research into Information and Communications Technology in the Public Sector

Abstract

In the study of public administration, e-government has been the focus of significant studies, and this number has been growing in recent years. This introduction to the virtual special issue of JPART on e-government highlights key contributions of selected JPART articles to the knowledge about information and technologies in government. In that sense, it presents a quick overview of e-government studies to all scholars in public administration. We observe that even though some highly important articles on e-government were published in JPART, the attention for this subject in this leading journal in public administration research is limited. We found only 10 articles, and the last article to focus on e-government was published in 2012. For that reason, this virtual special issue does not only present an overview of key findings from the past 15 years but also presents a call for more attention in JPART for systematic empirical analyses of e-government.