Páez Moreno, Á.E.; Parra Fonseca, C. Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure E-Governance through Factor Analysis. Data and Metadata 2024, 3, 332, doi:10.56294/dm2024332.
Páez Moreno, Á.E.; Parra Fonseca, C. Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure E-Governance through Factor Analysis. Data and Metadata 2024, 3, 332, doi:10.56294/dm2024332.
Páez Moreno, Á.E.; Parra Fonseca, C. Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure E-Governance through Factor Analysis. Data and Metadata 2024, 3, 332, doi:10.56294/dm2024332.
Páez Moreno, Á.E.; Parra Fonseca, C. Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure E-Governance through Factor Analysis. Data and Metadata 2024, 3, 332, doi:10.56294/dm2024332.
Abstract
(1) E-governance is defined as the application of electronic means in the interaction between government and citizens and government and business, as well as in internal government operations to simplify and improve democratic, governmental, and business aspects of governance. Thus, e-governance is built from a paradigmatic dimension such as e-democracy (relationship between government and citizens) and an operational one such as e-government. The objective was to design and validate an instrument to measure e-governance based on three factors: a) e-administration, b) e-services, and c) e-democracy; (2) Methods: Based on the level of importance given to each factor (sample of 2042 Latin American citizens), as well as the relationships between them, an analysis of the importance of each factor is carried out; (3) Results: After the confirmatory analysis, the definitive instrument with which e-governance can be measured by other researchers and future research is obtained, considering the three selection factors, namely: e-administration, e-services and e-democracy; (4) Conclusions: This research contributes to political science through the design and validation of an instrument consisting of 39 items that can be used to measure e-governance according to the dimensions proposed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Keywords
public administration; e-governance; validation of instruments
Subject
Social Sciences, Government
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