Abstract

VIEIRA, Kaio. Influence of e-government related indicators on Portugal's Municipal Transparency Index (MTI). RISTI [online]. 2023, n.50, pp.28-43.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 1646-9895.  https://doi.org/10.17013/risti.50.28-43.

To what extent is Portugal's Municipal Transparency Index (MTI) affected by the indicators related to the expected effect of e-government on transparency? Is there an interrelationship between them? This paper proposes to answer these questions, using the theoretical framework related to transparency and e-government, which deals with the importance of transparency, the effects of e-government on transparency, the content of government websites and how e-government can help improve transparency. Through statistical procedures, we tried to identify the ability of the 15 selected indicators to explain the MTI score, and to identify similarities among the Portuguese municipalities and among the indicators. The results showed that in the selected indicators there is considerable explanatory power of the MTI. It was also possible to identify, among the 15, those indicators with greater power to explain the MTI as well as the similarities among the indicators.

Keywords : Transparency; Transparency index; Electronic government; Portugal.

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