%0 Journal Article
%@ 1742-7509
%A Lindgren, T.
%A Ekenberg, L.
%A Nouri, J.
%A Talantsev, A.
%A Hansson, K.
%D 2016
%F iiasa:14207
%I Inderscience
%J International Journal of Electronic Governance
%K open government; e-government; e-participation; democracy; diversity; deliberation; freedom of information; accountability; interoperability; post-Soviet countries; electronic government; electronic participation; online participation; collaboration; innovation
%N 3
%P 256-272
%R doi:10.1504/IJEG.2016.10002287
%T Open government ideologies in post-soviet countries
%U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14207/
%V 8
%X Most research in research areas like e-government, e-participation and open government assumes a democratic norm. The open government (OG) concept is commonly based on a general liberal and deliberative ideology emphasising transparency, access, participation and collaboration, but were also innovation and accountability are promoted. In this paper, we outline a terminology and suggest a method for how to investigate the concept more systematically in different policy documents, with a special emphasis on post-soviet countries. The result shows that the main focus in this regions OG policy documents is on freedom of information and accountability, and to a lesser extent on collaboration, while other aspects, such as diversity and innovation, are more rarely mentioned, if at all.