Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1980. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 324-331).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southwest Texas State University, 1951. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-64).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-175).

Significant attempts have been made by national governments to provide services and information on the Internet via information and communication technologies. However, the accomplishment of these efforts strongly depends on how the targeted users, such as citizens, trust, use and adopt such services. As a consequence, a common interest in understanding the adoption and diffusion of electronic government has emerged in both developed and developing countries. Several impediments could prevent citizens from adopting e-government services such as trust, which consider as one of the major barriers. Many citizens are reluctant to adopt e-government services due to lack of trust, and this concern are not without merit. Citizens' confidence in government and technology is a salient inducer to the wide distribution of e-government adoption. Several studies that have focused on the adoption of e-government services have suggested that trust is a cornerstone for long-term e-government adoption. Therefore, this study aims to break down the complicated concept of trust to understand the factors that build citizens’ trust and the influence of citizens’ trust on the behavioural intention to use and adopt e-government services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This study focuses on understanding the impact of trust, trustworthiness and social influence on citizens’ willingness to use and adopt e-government services. In addition, it propose a model of trust that comprised of trustworthiness of government agencies, trust in the Internet, trust propensity, trust in e-government and social influence. To fulfil this aim, a quantitative research approach was employed to explore the role of citizen’s trust in e-government in Saudi Arabia, using a survey. This phase was followed by a qualitative research approach using semi-structured interviews to achieve deep understanding of any outstanding results from the conducted survey. From the data analysis, it is evident that all the exogenous variables—government ability, government benevolence and integrity, trust in Internet, trust propensity and social influence—were found to significantly affect citizens’ trust in e-government services. In addition, citizens' trust in e-government and social influence were found to be significant predictors of citizens' behavioural intentions to use e-government services. This study contributes by providing a conceptual model that is useful for studying citizen’s trust and usage behavioural of e-government services in Saudi Arabia.

Stockholm is facing a great expansion. The city is among the fastest growing population centers in the world. But where are the citizens seen in this development? How can we make this expansion process more democratic?   This thesis is an investigation in new ways to involve the citizens in the building process. A quest for answers to how politicians, developers, planners and architects can work together with the people when forming their city.   This thesis tries to create a center for this discussion, an operation that unifies all initiatives and projects about how Stockholm handles the existing environment and the future expansion. I call this project “Open City”. It refers to the aim to open up the discussion and processes and let the citizens in. Open City also means a city without boundaries, with a narrow net of infrastructure where all districts have their own strong identity. Open City would take place as hubs in different areas around the city in order to decrease the centralization. This thesis also zooms in on one of these hubs, on Järvafältet. / Stockholm står inför en stor expansion. Staden är bland de snabbast växande i världen. Men var syns medborgarna i denna utveckling? Hur kan vi göra denna utvecklingsprocess mer demokratisk?   Detta examensarbete är en undersökning i att hitta nya sätt att involvera invånarna i byggandet av deras stad. Ett sökande efter svar på hur politiker, byggherrar och arkitekter kan arbeta tillsammans med medborgarna i formandet av staden.   I detta examensarbete utreds möjligheten att skapa ett center för denna diskussion, ett projekt som samlar alla initiativ och allt engagemang som rör hur Stockholm hanterar den befintliga stadsmiljön och den framtida expansionen. Jag kallar detta projekt ”Open City”. Det refererar till målet att öppna upp diskussionen och processen och släppa in invånarna. Open City står också för en stad utan barriärer med ett tätt nät av infrastruktur där alla områden har sina egna starka identiteter. Projektet skulle ta plats i form av center på ett flertal platser spridda över staden. I detta examensarbete zoomar jag in på centret på Järvafältet.

This study examines the ideology of white southern opposition to the civil rights movement in order to recognize the transformation of white concepts of race in the midst of racial change and how those changes impacted the emergence of new conservative political principles in the post-civil rights era. The recognition of a new racial consciousness informs historical appraisals of the significance of white resistance and suggests that this opposition made a vital contribution to the political realignments of the 1960s and 1970s. The foundation of this study rests upon the Citizens’ Council Forum, a television and radio program that aired from 1957-1966. Forum’s sponsor, the Citizens’ Council of America, has been consistently recognized as the most highly-organized and active of white resistance organizations in the South. Forum was the Council’s effort to place its organizing principles of states’ rights and racial integrity among a myriad of other pressing political problems in order to sell its campaign to preserve segregation to an audience that extended beyond the borders of the South. This effort required guests of the show to subvert questions of racial equality to broader concerns of federal power, liberal politics and foreign policy. Attention to these topics in addition to Forum discussions of the civil rights movement reveals that in the process of opposing racial change, white resistance helped usher in a new era of racial consciousness that concealed race within conservative ideas. Race became a powerful insinuation within these issues. The “colorblind” tactics of Forum guests eschewed direct denunciations of the black race but ensured that race would remain a firm component of public political discussions. This study highlights the importance of reaction to historical change as a way to understand the evolution of ideas. As the civil rights movement instigated new, more equitable ideas about race, its opponents acted in parallel ways to repackage the principles of white supremacy. They did so by leveraging principles against the actual conditions that the system of racial discrimination wrought. Less visible forms of racialized rhetoric replaced the raw language of segregation and gave segregationists and their sympathizers a home in conservative politics.

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Yes / Government legislation and calls for greater levels of oversight and transparency are leading public bodies to publish their raw datasets online. Policy makers and elected officials anticipate that the accessibility of open data through online Government portals for citizens will enable public engagement in policy making through increased levels of fact based content elicited from open data. The usability and benefits of such open data are being argued as contributing positively towards public sector reforms, which are under extreme pressures driven by extended periods of austerity. However, there is very limited scholarly studies that have attempted to empirically evaluate the performance of government open data websites and the acceptance and use of these data from a citizen perspective. Given this research void, an adjusted diffusion of innovation model based on Rogers’ diffusion of innovations theory (DOI) is proposed and used in this paper to empirically determine the predictors influencing the use of public sector open data. A good understanding of these predictors affecting the acceptance and use of open data will likely assist policy makers and public administrations in determining the policy instruments that can increase the acceptance and use of open data through an active promotion campaign to engage-contribute-use.