Thank you to those who answered my recent user time and e-mail query. I have a new question - what are the best examples of web site feature studies/comparisons? Which ones provide valuable insights and conclusions? For the next few of months I will be doing research for the United Nations on e-government and citizen participation. (More on this later.) I plan to suggest in a paper a set of web site indicators, perhaps a "Democracy Online Index" that could be applied in future years when someone is trying to determine the level of e-democracy activity on a government web site. In the past, most e-government ranking studies have focused on services or general content and haven't had the granularity I'd like to see in the e-democracy area. Below I have done my netizen duty and shared the links to studies that I know about. What am I missing in the e-government/e-politics niche? What about web site feature analysis of media sites or any other category of site? Please reply to (or the list and): clift@publicus.net Thanks, Steven Clift http://www.publicus.net (long links need to be pasted together) Specific examples of feature analysis of government/political web sites: ====================================================================== == Global E-Government, 2002 - Center for Public Policy, Brown University http://www.insidepolitics.org/egovt02int.html (and many more ...) Global E-Government Survey http://www.unpan.org/egovernment2.asp The Politics of State Legislature Websites: An Evaluation of Content and Design http://apsaproceedings.cup.org/Site/papers/038/038012FerberPaul.pdf Plugged In, Tuning Up: An Assessment of State Legislative Websites http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/395/1/3/ 2002 Local Government & Community Initiative (Michigan) http://www.cyber-state.org/1_0/1_4_1.html Cyberspace Policy Research Group - A number of items http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/ Including "Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Speculations": http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/publications/democrac.rtf Webbing Governance: National Differences in Constructing the Face of Public Organizations http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/publications/webbing.rtf And their "Website Attribute Evaluation System": http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/waes.html 2002 Candidate Web Sphere Analysis http://politicalweb.info Site Analyzer - 2004 Democratic Presidential Campaign Sites http://politicalweb.info/2004.html NetElection 2000 http://web.archive.org/web/20010424093217/netelection.org/research/sit e-analysis-workshop/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010521145552/netelection.org/features/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010521145840/netelection.org/features/por tals/ US State Political Party Sites Compared in 2000 Election http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@tc.umn.edu/msg00375.html http://www3.uakron.edu/bliss/partywebs/ Congress Online - Turning the Corner on the Information Age http://www.congressonlineproject.org/webstudy2003.html http://www.congressonlineproject.org/appendixa2003.html Interaction between states and citizens in the age of the Internet: "e-government" in the United States, Britain and the European Union http://pro.harvard.edu/papers/040/040004ChadwickAn.pdf e-government - User-friendliness of Websites (NSW Auditor General's Report) http://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/perfaud-rep/Websites-June2002/websites- June2002.pdf Good websites predict 'excellent' councils says Socitms's Better Connected 2003 report http://www.socitm.gov.uk/Public/press+releases/20030228.htm Political Organisations And Online Mobilisation: Different Media - Same Outcomes? http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/ESRCResearchproject/papers/UK_online_org _participation.pdf Online and On Message? Candidate Websites in the 2001 General Election (UK) http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/ESRCResearchproject/papers/mpgpaper.html Information Society and the City - Metropolis http://www.metropolis.org/metropolis/meteleclib.nsf/2a6bd98dee287482ca 256915001cff0c/672c5a02d76126b2ca256bb2001bc50a/$FILE/COMISION%204%20I NGLES%2018.04.pdf General Sources =============== Electronic Government Project - Rankings and Reviews... http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-rankings.htm UK EStatMap Collection http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/oee/oee.nsf/sections/e-statmap- top/$file/estatmap.htm Critical Choices in Web Research Design http://aoir.org/2001/workshop.htm Lead in part by those with: http://www.webarchivist.org Other ===== E-Government Ranking Survey Is Meaningless http://www3.gartner.com/resources/101800/101888/101888.pdf State of the e-Gov Nation - UK Survey http://www.publicsectorforums.co.uk/page.cfm?pageID=111&language=eng Bericht zum Stand von E-Government in der Schweiz 2002 (Swiss Survey) http://verdi.unisg.ch/org/idt/ceegov.nsf/f130aeb8bd0118d6c1256c8a00416 f95/95530a8996fbb7cdc1256cde002ec918?OpenDocument