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Innovations in information communication technologies have
contributed to new forms of interaction between governments
and citizens in the United States and other industrialized
democracies. The adoption of these technologies at different
levels of government has contributed to the emergence of
electronic-government or e-government designed to
communicate information, deliver services, and offer additional
avenues designed to interact with and participate in government.
Based on a detailed content analysis of government websites in
conjunction with descriptive and multiple regression
approaches, this study assesses and explains the level of egovernment
sophistication at the local level of government
across different States in the United States. The study argues
that local e-government sophistication increases for
municipalities governed by professional managers, endowed
with more organizational resources, characterized by higher
socioeconomic levels, increasing population size, and located in
the west. While the findings support the hypothesis, the
descriptive analysis also illustrates that local governments have
not fully embraced the potentials of e-government.
