An e-Government initiative is a long term process that necessitates significant changes to constantly adapt to new challenges. However, e-government initiatives are always at risk of failure if individuals do not accept or embrace the change. This presents a unique challenge for governments implementing e-Government initiatives to understand factors that may influence their readiness for change...

Across the United States, metropolitan areas face challenges related to transportation and land use. An emerging policy in many regions is to promote development around higher-density, mixed-use (smart-growth) centers that create locally accessible nodes; many of these nodes are also linked to transit stops. Some metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) have developed regional plans and incen...

Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government has given authority to City Governments carry out government affairs in the trade sector, namely implementation calibration, re-analysis, and supervision legal metrology sub-affairs field consumer protection.As an autonomous region, Tanjungpinang order be able run its must supported by sources regional income, one which is Retribution origina...

Governance is broader notion than government. It involves governments but also civil society (citizens, civic institutions, etc). In the urban management context, governance refers to all the laws, regulations, frameworks systems and processes that shape the way in which the local government operates. These frameworks, processes and systems may be formal or informal. The formal governance struc...

This paper describes an approach to the evaluative design of e-government projects that complements traditional approaches which focus predominantly on measures such as efficiency and profit/ROI. Whilst such measures are important in the context of e-government, they do not naturally support the evaluation of the broader political and social objectives such as social inclusion, community regene...

AIMS Local alcohol policies can be effective in reducing alcohol-related harm. The aim of this study was to examine local government responses to alcohol-related problems and identify factors influencing their development and adoption of alcohol policy. DESIGNSETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS: Case studies were used to examine local government responses to alcohol problems in three New Zealand communit...

Thispaper is the first to systematical/y analyze and compare the structures of city governance and administration for seven maior cities in LatinAmerica, four of which are megacities (population of over 10millionJ, and three others are large national capitais. U.S.and U. K.models of city administration are reviewed as baseline models against which differences in LatinAmerican may be explored. S...

Local economy is conventionally defined through political administrative units. The continuity of this approach has been challenged as more networked forms have evolved. In response, local economies are increasingly reconfigured around city-regions, on presumption linking network potential with dynamics. Such challenges present several problems for practitioners in economic governance. This pap...

As measured by the pace of city growth in western Europe from 1000 to 1800, absolutist monarchs stunted the growth of commerce and industry. A region ruled by an absolutist prince saw its total urban population shrink by one hundred thousand people per century relative to a region without absolutist government. This might be explained by higher rates of taxation under revenue-maximizing absolut...

This study presents the first results of an analysis primarily based on semi-structured interviews with government officials and managers who are responsible for smart city initiatives in four North American cities—Philadelphia and Seattle in the United States, Quebec City in Canada, and Mexico City in Mexico. With the reference to the Smart City Initiatives Framework that we suggested in our p...