The Determinants of E-Disclosure Attitude: Empirical Evidences from Italian and Spanish Municipalities

Research investigates the attitude to the information disclosure via website, analysing a sample of 287 Italian and Spanish municipalities. A Tobit regression approach is adopted to explore the main determinants of e-disclosure. The findings show that municipality’s factors like Internet visibility, wealth and leverage play an important role to determine the level of e-disclosure. In addition, a cluster analysis highlights that in Italy there is a greater level of e-disclosure than in Spain, revealing a set of specific elements that characterize municipalities with higher disclosure.     

谈政府信息公开环境下政府网站的建设

政府网站作为政府信息搜集、发布和管理的平台,为政府行政提供了一个有效的信息交流和传递通道。但目前我国现有的一些政府网站在提供政府信息服务方面存在着许多不足,严重地影响了政府网站作用的正常发挥。本文分析了我国政府网站存在的主要问题,并据此提出了相关的对策与建议,以期对提高我国政府网站的服务水平起到一定的作用。     

Gender-Based Strategies on Candidate Websites

As a result of changes in the campaign landscape, candidates have several strategic options available to them, particularly when considering how to respond to voters’ gender stereotypes. The goal of this paper is to understand candidates’ use of strategies based on gender stereotypes by emphasizing either particular issues or particular traits that are commonly associated with one gender or the other. To do this, I developed hypotheses of why candidates might choose a trait or issues strategy based on gender stereotypes. I tested these hypotheses using a large-scale content analysis of candidate websites over four election cycles. I found that female candidates mostly pursued strategies that were consistent with gender stereotypes. Interestingly, female candidates were found to have different strategies on different pages of their websites. I discuss the implications of gender-based strategies for the election of female candidates and for representation.