A Study of the Characteristics and Trend of E-Government Studies in China: Based on Content Analysis Method

• 1、College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
• 2、 Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Science of Non-traditional Security Centre, Wuhan 430074, Hubei

Abstract：Content analysis is adopted to the literatures in the field of E-government published during 1990-2010 from four aspects, including research topic, reference disciplines, units of analysis and research methods. Based on the statistical analysis of these publications, some findings are gained. These researches focus mainly on information resource management, information resource integration, architecture and information security for e-government, and some new researching themes has appeared. Disciplines of references are diversifying and information science, business administration, political science and law are mutually dependent for e-governmen. These researches focus on the micro-level, which lacks the researches on the medium-level (such as industry and organizational level). In addition, most of them use non-empirical research methods. At last, the paper points out e-government researches and the insufficiency of the researches on e-government.

Keywords： electronic government content analysis research topics research levels