Abstract
In spite of significant innovations in information technologies, e-government remains at an early stage of implementation. A large number of studies have been made on e-government. In recent years, there has been renewal of interest in e-democracy. Although most e-government resources reside in the administrative side of government, the online activities of representative institutions have to be accelerated as well, i.e., parliaments, legislatures, and local councils are compelled to take up the IT challenge in order to remain politically relevant.
What seems to be lacking, however, is to speculate on conceptual frameworks, theories, and methods. I have examined e-government and e-democracy from the viewpoint of Public Choice which can be defined as the economic study of non-market decision making. The basic behavioral postulate of public choice is that man is egoistic and rational. I should like to explore a further possibility, which to the best of my knowledge has never been examined.
