Digital Transformation of Government Control and Trust in Government: To the Problem Statement
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.200502.135How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- e-government, e-services, performance theory, trust, policy, politics
- Abstract
The article provides an analysis of the so-called performance theory, directly connecting trust in government authorities and the quality of government electronic services according to the scheme: “improving the quality of government services through the use of information technology - increase of citizen satisfaction with the quality of services - increase of trust in government authorities.” It was demonstrated that this theory does not have empirical confirmation, both due to difficulties with the operationalization of the “trust in government” concept and because of the so-called “attribution errors”. The difference of the methods used to assess the quality of e-services and determining the level of trust in government authorities, further compounds matters. The empirical results look unclear and controversial: trust is both the cause and the consequence of satisfaction with the control quality. However, performance theory is supported by a coalition of technocrat experts interested in promoting it as a tool to the rationale for the very costly processes of the digital transformation of government control.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - A.D. Trakhtenberg AU - E.G. Dyakova PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/05 TI - Digital Transformation of Government Control and Trust in Government: To the Problem Statement BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Management Trends and the Digital Economy: from Regional Development to Global Economic Growth” (MTDE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 830 EP - 834 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200502.135 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200502.135 ID - Trakhtenberg2020 ER -