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%T Strengthening Democracy through Citizen e-Participation on Local Level in the Republic of Macedonia %A Cvetanova, Ganka %A Pachovski, Veno %A Bojadzievska, Irena %J European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities %N 2 %P 16 %V 7 %D 2018 %K local governance; citizen e-participation; e-democracy initiatives; levels of citizen involvement %@ 2285-4916 %~ Ss. Cyril & Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57097-0 %X The paper evaluates the types of e-democracy initiatives on local level in the Republic of Macedonia. E-democracy initiatives were classified by the elements of the democratic process, which they work to enhance: transparency, accountability and active participation. For the purpose of our research we analysed websites of the units of local self-government in the Republic of Macedonia in the period of 2017, with special emphasis on e-democracy initiatives in order to provide a framework for classification. The research discovered many outstanding local e-democracy initiatives. However, there is a little evidence that these initiatives have done much to ameliorate the problems on local level that Republic of Macedonia is facing, such as: weak democratic institutions and low level of citizen participation in democratic processes using ICT as intermediary. The paper also provides some recommendations for improving e-democracy initiatives on local level and their performance in general. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info