Information and Communication Technologies in the Public Sector (Bulgaria – China Comparative Analysis) Cover Image

Информационни и комуникационни технологии в публичния сектор (сравнителен анализ България – Китай)
Information and Communication Technologies in the Public Sector (Bulgaria – China Comparative Analysis)

Author(s): Tsvetanka Dutsova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Economy
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: : e-government; Bulgaria; China; political development; administrative services

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine the current development of e-government in the Republic of Bulgaria compared to that in the People‘s Republic of China (PRC). This paper conceptualizes a framework of political integration of the process of digitization of the public sector and the approaches for studying the Chinese and Bulgarian states, which maximizes the quality of services, increases economy and cost effectiveness. The paper argues that while many researchers claim to show the full picture in the development of the e-government implementation process at the national level of the two countries by carefully examining their digital resources, they ignore the political and economic changes over the past five years, leading to divergence of the conceptual frameworks from their original