TY - JOUR

T1 - Russian movement for 'open government': issues of civic ingagement in politics

AU - Smorgunov, Leonid

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The paper concerns contemporary trends and issues of transparency, participation and collaboration in governmental activities in Russia. Building an 'open government' is based on the institutionalisation of access for citizens to the sphere of governmental activities and transformation of government. Its implementation, however, has resulted in a certain gap between the three major clusters of the movement for open government: governmental, presidential and civil. The paper analyses the structural and ideological movement for open government in Russia. Using a network approach, the author describes the main clusters of the movement for open government, and particularly the structure of political opportunities they create for civic engagement in public policy but also for authoritative control over it. The paper is based on a study of 154 actors of open government using network analysis.

AB - The paper concerns contemporary trends and issues of transparency, participation and collaboration in governmental activities in Russia. Building an 'open government' is based on the institutionalisation of access for citizens to the sphere of governmental activities and transformation of government. Its implementation, however, has resulted in a certain gap between the three major clusters of the movement for open government: governmental, presidential and civil. The paper analyses the structural and ideological movement for open government in Russia. Using a network approach, the author describes the main clusters of the movement for open government, and particularly the structure of political opportunities they create for civic engagement in public policy but also for authoritative control over it. The paper is based on a study of 154 actors of open government using network analysis.

KW - open government

KW - network clusters

KW - political opportunities

KW - civic engagement

KW - government control

KW - Russia

KW - politics

KW - public policy

KW - network analysis.

U2 - DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2016.10002283

DO - DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2016.10002283

M3 - Article

VL - 8

SP - 211

EP - 228

JO - International Journal of Electronic Governance

JF - International Journal of Electronic Governance

SN - 1742-7509

IS - 3

ER -