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NCDG Working Papers are accepted from NCDG affiliated faculty and fellows and from members of NCDG Affiliated Research Groups. Working papers represent research-in-progress. NCDG also accepts Occasional Papers from our affiliates. Occasional papers are not research-in-progress and instead present expert opinions on various digital government issues. We welcome your comments on all papers posted here.

All NCDG Working and Occasional Papers are licensed to the author(s) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 

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2009

Kes-Erkul, A. and Erkul, R. E. (2009). Web 2.0 in the Process of e-participation: the Case of Organizing for America and the Obama Administration. NCDG Working paper #09-001.

2008

Luna Reyes, L. and Gil-Garcia, J. R. 2008. E-Government and Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Mexico: Survey Results. NCDG Working Paper #08-003.

Sarkar, S. 2008. The New Middle-Class, Technology and Modernity in Seelampur. NCDG Working Paper #08-001.

Schweik, C.M., English, R., and Haire, S. 2008. Open Source Software Collaboration: Foundational Concepts and an Empirical Analysis. NCDG Working Paper #08-002.

2007

English, R. & Schweik, C. 2007. Identifying Success and Tragedy of FLOSS Commons: A Preliminary Classification of Sourceforge.net Projects, NCDG Working Paper # 07-002.

Ferro, E., Helbig, N.C., & Gil-Garcia, J.R. 2007. The Digital Divide Metaphor: Understanding Paths to IT Literacy, NCDG Working Paper # 07-001.

Fountain, J. 2007. Better public services for growth and jobs, NCDG Occasional Paper #07-007.

Fountain, J. 2007. Bureaucratic Reform and E-Government in the United States: An Institutional Perspective, NCDG Working Paper #07-006.

Hamel, M. 2007. Open-Source Collaboration in the Public Sector: The Need for Leadership and Value. NCDG Working Paper # 07-004.

Schellong, A. 2007. Increasing Social Capital for Disaster Response through Social Networking Services (SNS) in Japanese Local Governments. NCDG Working Paper #07-005.

Schweik, C. & English, R. 2007. Brooks' Versus Linus' Law: An Empirical Test of Open Source Projects. NCDG Working Paper #07-009.

Schweik, C. & English, R. 2007. Tragedy of the FOSS Commons? Investigating the Institutional Designs of Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects, NCDG Working Paper # 07-003.

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2006

Fountain, J.E. 2006. Challenges to Organizational Change: Multi-Level Integrated Information Structures (MIIS), NCDG Working Paper # 06-001.

Fountain, J.E. 2006. Enacting Technology in Networked Governance: Developmental Processes of Cross-Agency Arrangements, NCDG Working Paper # 06-003.

Meijer, A.J. 2006. ICTs and Political Accountability: An Assessment of the Impact of Digitization in Government on Political Accountability in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York State, NCDG Working Paper # 06-002.

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2005

Gil-Garcia, J. R. & Martinez-Moyano, I. J. 2005. Exploring E-Government Evolution: The Influence of Systems of Rules on Organizational Action [PDF], NCDG Working Paper # 05-001.

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2004

Esterling, K.M., Lazer, D.M., & Neblo, M.A. 2004. Is Necessity the Mother of Innovation? The Adoption and Use of Web Technologies among Congressional Offices [PDF], NCDG Working Paper #04-010.

Selian, A. & Cukier, K.N. 2004. The World vs. The Web: The UN's Politicization of the Information Society, NCDG Working Paper #04-011.

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2003

Binz-Scharf, M.C., 2003. Bureaucratic Networks or Networked Bureaucracies? Knowledge Sharing in ICT-Enabled Innovation Projects, NCDG Working Paper #03-012.

Clark, D, Fountain, J., Gillett, S., Lehr, W., & Sirbu, M. 2003. Local Government Stimulation of Broadband: E-Government, Effectiveness and Economic Development, NCDG Working Paper #03-002.

Fountain, J. 2003. Electronic Government and Electronic Civics, NCDG Working Paper #03-001.

Fountain, J. 2003. Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government, NCDG Working Paper #03-003.

Fountain, J., McKinnon, R. & Park, E. 2003. E-Government Cross-Agency and Intergovernmental Initiatives Research Project: Web Survey Results, NCDG Working Paper #03-011.

Mossberger, K., Tolbert, C. J. 2003. Race, Place, and Information Technology, NCDG Working Paper Series 03-013.

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